I’m a Richard Dawkins fan from way back. When I was a freshman biology major at Florida State, one of my professors recommended The Selfish Gene, which remains one of my favorite science books. (I was not convinced then, nor am I now, of the usefulness of Dawkins’s meme theory, but that’s a minor quibble.) I also read The Blind Watchmaker, which solidified my opinion of Dawkins as a both a great rationalist and a great poet of nature.
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