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The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including hum

Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of

Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to “survival machines” whose sole purpose was to preserve “th

In evolution, most genes survive and spread within populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reprod

Short, sassy, and bold, Mean Genes uses a Darwinian lens to examine the issues that most deeply affect our lives: body image, money, addiction, violence, and th