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作者:RichardDawkins
出版时间:2004-10-27
书籍简介:
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also are moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collection ends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.
作者简介:
理查德•道金斯（Richard Dawkins，1941— ），英国皇家科学院院士，牛津大学教授，著名科普作家，进化论生物学家。他是英国最重要的科学作家，几乎每本书都是畅销书，并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。2005年，英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名最有影响力的公共知识分子，道金斯赫然在列。1976年出版的《自私的基因》是他最重要的代表作，他的基因观念颠覆了我们对自身的幻觉，深刻影响了整整一个时代。其他作品有《盲眼钟表匠》《地球上最伟大的表演》《魔鬼的牧师》《解析彩虹》《祖先的故事》《攀登不可能的山峰》等。
