Whatever your opinion of ‘Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls ‘Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish genes’ and ‘memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird droppings is alone worth the price of the book. Darwinian Fairytales should be read and pondered by anyone interested in sociobiology, the origin of altruism, and the awesome process of evolution. –Martin Gardner, author of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
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Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution
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Paperback / 345 pages
ISBN: 1594032009
AVAILABLE:3/15/2007
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Darwinian Fairytales
Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution
About the Author
David Charles Stove (1927-1994), was an Australian philosopher of science, and essayist in the popular press. Stove also wrote articles on a variety of topics for non-philosophical magazines.
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