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daktor 's review for:
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
I approached this book with caution thinking that it was going to be a typical scientific book filled with overly verbose statements and meanings that I have no idea about, however I was very surprised.
Considering it was first published before i was even born it is still a very good read that, in my view, is aimed at the non-scientific reader. Richard Dawkins breaks down every aspect about genes from their very conception as the replicators from billions of years ago to now and how we are just "survival machines" that facilitate the genes desire to replicate with the outcome being Darwinian natural selection.
Everything is explained in great detail and if you don't fully understand what he is talking about most of the time he reinforces scientific statements with a more basic analogy which cleared it up for me every time.
The book is very well written and I have seen people such as Neil deGrasse Tyson give Richard Dawkins criticism before for not showing passion or getting the point across but I think he absolutely nails it in this book.
I have learned so much from this book that I am now going to work my way through all of his books as I think he is a very talented author and gets his point across brilliantly.
Well worth a read and the very fact that it is still holding its own after forty years says it all.
Excellent
Considering it was first published before i was even born it is still a very good read that, in my view, is aimed at the non-scientific reader. Richard Dawkins breaks down every aspect about genes from their very conception as the replicators from billions of years ago to now and how we are just "survival machines" that facilitate the genes desire to replicate with the outcome being Darwinian natural selection.
Everything is explained in great detail and if you don't fully understand what he is talking about most of the time he reinforces scientific statements with a more basic analogy which cleared it up for me every time.
The book is very well written and I have seen people such as Neil deGrasse Tyson give Richard Dawkins criticism before for not showing passion or getting the point across but I think he absolutely nails it in this book.
I have learned so much from this book that I am now going to work my way through all of his books as I think he is a very talented author and gets his point across brilliantly.
Well worth a read and the very fact that it is still holding its own after forty years says it all.
Excellent