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The Moral Animal Whe We Are The Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright For Lisa Without thinking what he was doing, he took another drink of brandy. As the liquid touched his tongue he remembered his child, coming in out of the glare: the sullen unhappy knowledgeable face. He said, "Oh God, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live for ever." This was th...

NONZERO Acclaim for Robert Wright’s NONZERO: The Logic of Human Destiny “An original, accessible and thought-provoking view of history . . . full of rich detail, ingenious insight and bold argument.” —The Economist “Wright carries his learning lightly, and his bold attempt to uncover parallels between organic evolution and the development of human cultures makes for a compelling synthesis. ...

THE ANCESTOR'S TALE By the same author: The Selfish Gene The Extended Phenotype The Blind Watchmaker River Out of Eden Climbing Mount Improbable Unweaving the Rainbow A Devil's Chaplain THE ANCESTOR'S TALE A PILGRIMAGE TO THE DAWN OF LIFE RICHARD DAWKINS with additional research by YAN WONG WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON John Maynard Smith (1920-2004) He saw a draft and graciously accepted th...

RICHARD DAWKINS THE BLIND WATCHMAKER A B O U T THE AUTHOR Richard Dawkins was born in Nairobi in 1941. He was educated at Oxford University, and after graduation remained there to work for his doctorate with the Nobel Prize-winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1970 he became a Lecturer i...

Author of Unweaving the Rainbow and The Ancestor's Tale RI A CHARD DEVIL'S DAWKI N S CHAPLAIN F L E C T I O N S ON H O P E , L I E S , SCI E NcfNt4J D L 0 V E - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK^fcEVIEW A superb writer . . . Dawkins unashamedly and gloriously delights in science." - NEW REPUBLIC MARINER BOOKS Praise for Richard Dawkins and A DEVIL'S C H A P L A I N "One of the best-known scientists an...

THE SELFISH GENE Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Born in Nairobi of British parents, he was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel-prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, returning as University Lecturer and ...

'Who should read this book? Everyone interested in the universe and their place in it.' Jeffrey R. Baylis, Animal Behaviour Our genes made us. We animals exist for their preservation and are nothing more than their throwaway survival machines. The world of the selfish gene is one of savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit. But what of the acts of apparent altruism found in nature...

Also by Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene The Extended Phenotype The Blind Watchmaker River Out of Eden Climbing Mount Improbable Unweaving the Rainbow A Devil's Chaplain The Ancestor's Tale THE GOD DELUSION Richard Dawkins TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA a division of The Random House Group Ltd RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA (PTY) LTD 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydn...

About the Author the author of Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human; the critically acclaimed MATT R I D L E Y is national bestseller Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters; The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation; and the New York Times Notable Book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. His books have bee...