#MarchMagic #AboutScience A classic (I‘m told) that has been on my TBR for years !
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 👍🏻 2y
AmyG How relevant now. 🤣 (edited) 2y
Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻 2y
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The Selfish Gene | 
#MarchMagic #AboutScience A classic (I‘m told) that has been on my TBR for years !
I‘ve been working my way through this for a while. Very interesting and easy to understand
1. Genes act locally, think globally
2. Chocolate, because eating it makes me happier and just a better person to interact with.
3. How about 1379?
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
@SamAnne @GingerAntics @Reggie @I.be.Stef
pickWonderfully clear, concise, and explained in a way non-scientists can grasp, this book helps illuminate how DNA and genes evolved and the scientific basis of evolutionary psychology. I was so impressed with Dawkins' writing. The ideas in this book seem as fresh and revolutionary as when they took the world by storm 40 years ago.
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 per cent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity while seeing themselves as stepping-stones to the Almighty.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Here the author is talking about Mantises. Such an interesting fact. Hahaha. Made me laugh
Btw copulation means sex. Hahah
Starting this one along with crime and punishment. Planning to read it slowly over the next month
pickThis is one of the best books I have read. Richard Dawkins is a brilliant writer and a great explainer. He has this amazing skill of presenting a topic in a way making it look easy and natural. I wish all my subject books were written in this style.
pickA scientific masterpiece by Dawkins. Explores the evolution of life and genes to what they have become
pickThe Selfish Gene is a deep dive in the world of evolution on a genetic scale, advancing what Darwin theorized. At times I felt like I was in over my head, but Dawkins always does a nice job bringing the subject matter down to an understandable level. I listened to the 2011 version on Audible which was narrated by Richard and his wife, British actress Lalla Ward. This version had a new forward and two extra chapters at the end.
pickAstonishing #nonfiction about evolution. #Dawkins states that driving force of evolution is not an individual or group of individuals, but the selfish gene born in a primordial soup, and since then genes construct more and more complicated survival machines, including people. Lots of examples and vivid narration make the book interesting and easy to understand. #Mustread for everyone who is interested in evolution, genes and wonders of nature!
'We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.'
#currentbookquote, #readingresolutions
@Jess7
This will be my first personal reading challenge here on Litsy!😉 May will be non-fiction month 🤓 Planning Hawking, Slingerland, Metzinger, Jaynes and Dawkins. And to finish Senlin Ascends, as well as several book club assignments. A bit ambitious, but 10-days vacation must help! 🌄
Thanks to @Jess7 for the game chart!
#readingresolutions, #maytbr
I can't believe this book was #PublishedInThe1970s 😲for some reason I thought it came out in there 90s #jubilantjuly
In contrast to the disgustingly overpriced academia books we needed for class, this was also required reading, and it probably cost less than $10, I got more out of it than any $100 textbook, I've continued to re-read and reference it post-college, and I love you, Prof. Dawkins. ❤️ #booksnotdebt
