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pedroalmeida 's review for:
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
What a crazy good book!
Dawkins rhetoric is brilliant and the prose unexpectedly uplifting, way distant from the vocal activist he seems to take nowadays. For something written in the 70s it feels fresh and pertinent.
I rob him of a star for not being (entirely) convinced by some arguments, like the gameta differentiation for instance. Also, for lacking a proper conclusion.
Favourite quote:
"And here is a case history to provoke more Freudian anxiety than the Peter Pan beetles - parasitic castration!"
Dawkins rhetoric is brilliant and the prose unexpectedly uplifting, way distant from the vocal activist he seems to take nowadays. For something written in the 70s it feels fresh and pertinent.
I rob him of a star for not being (entirely) convinced by some arguments, like the gameta differentiation for instance. Also, for lacking a proper conclusion.
Favourite quote:
"And here is a case history to provoke more Freudian anxiety than the Peter Pan beetles - parasitic castration!"