author: richard dawkins

Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist Richard Dawkins. Theory. 2. Use. and. disuse. plus. inheritance. of. acquired. characters. This is the Lamarckian theory. It is convenient to discuss it in two parts. Use and disuse It is an ...

... It is very dusty and the stones are black.' It wasn't pleasant, and I knew it would get worse. [.. .] After two hours of scooping dry earth, shaking it through mesh, and finding absolutely nothing of any interest, we found our ...

... Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life. London: Weidenfeld ... Demon-Haunted World ... Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shubin, N. 2008. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 ...

This is a page-turning detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well.

The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. Aside from these extraordinary tales, there is another kind of magic that lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions.

Richard Dawkins. The Greatest Show on Earth The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins 'This is a magnificent book of wonderstanding: Richard Dawkins combines an artist's wonder at the virtuosity of nature with a scientist's ...

It has been widely acclaimed too for its literary qualities. Here is a book that set a new standard in science writing for the wider public, a modern masterpiece that fresh generations of aspiring young scientists would seek to emulate.

... giraffe. Similarly, impalas and gnus' are close cousins of each other, and slightly more distant cousins of giraffes and okapis. All four of them are more distant cousins still of other cloven-hoofed animals, such as pigs and warthogs ...

... Species . This piece is replete with falsehoods of a quantity and magnitude that try even the high standards set by ... Savage believed the skull in the missionary's possession belonged to a new species of Orang . He later decided that ...

Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task.

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone.

... Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods . Indiana University Press , Bloomington . [ 48 ] Clarke , R. J. ( 1998 ) First ever discovery of a well - preserved skull and asso- ciated skeleton of Australopithecus . South African Journal of ...