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Good stuff. Just finished Dawkins' new book: The Greatest Show on Earth - should be introductory biology reading for high school students. However, still prefe
by joubert 17y ago
Good stuff. Just finished Dawkins' new book: The Greatest Show on Earth - should be introductory biology reading for high school students.
However, still prefer his The Selfish Gene for raising my consciousness the most.
- MikeCapone 17y agoI have bought The Greatest Show on Earth but haven't read it yet. Dawkins is an author that I automatically buy (won't wait for it to be available at the library...). Selfish Gene was indeed life-changing for me. I you want more Yudkowsky stuff on Evolution, check out the rest of this sequence of posts: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Evolution http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Evolution
- billswift 17y agoBy the time I read "The Selfish Gene" I didn't really see anything that enlightening in it. "The Extended Phenotype" is the one that I found most enlightening.
- joubert 17y agoI had always viewed evolution from the organism perspective. Whereas Dawkins lets you see it from the perspective of replicators. This I found an eye opener.