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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Thinkby AlanGrafen and MarkRidley (eds)Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK304 pp, $25/£13ISBN 0199291160 ![][1] Thirty years after its publication, Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene still “provokes admiration, astonishment, and rage”, in the words of Randolph Nesse. In Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think , the book's anniversary is celebrated in a volume of essays brought together by editors Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley. According to Nesse, admiration is from the lucid prose, astonishment from the startling ideas, but why the enduring rage? Not from the descriptions of genes themselves, but from the implications that humans must be basically selfish, even though it is usually advantageous to cooperate—thus, the “selfish cooperators”. This collection of essays from leading scientists, philosophers and writers testifies that the selfish gene is alive and well, and still challenging any naive assumptions … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif
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