• Medientyp: Buch; Biografie
  • Titel: Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
  • Beteiligte: Dawkins, Richard [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
  • Ausgabe: First US edition
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  • Umfang: 455 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten; Illustrationen; 24 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0062288431; 9780062288431
  • Entstehung:
  • RVK-Notation: WB 3140 : da - dc
  • Schlagwörter: Dawkins, Richard
    Dawkins, Richard > Biologe > England
  • Beschreibung: "Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture"--

    Flashback at a feast -- Oh, the things that are done by a don -- Lore of the jungle -- Go to the wasp, thou sluggard: evolutionary economics -- The delegate's tale -- Christmas lectures -- Islands of the blest -- Whoso findeth a publisher findeth a good thing -- Television -- Debates and encounters -- Simonyi professor -- Unweaving the threads from a scientist's loom -- The Taxicab Theory of evolution -- Extending the phenotype -- Action at a distance -- Rediscovering the organism: passengers and stowaways -- Aftermaths to The extended phenotype -- Constraints on perfection -- The Darwinian engineer in the classroom -- "The genetic book of the dead" and the species as "averaging computer" -- Evolution in pixels -- The evolution of evolvability -- Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Arthromorphs -- The cooperative gene -- Universal Darwinism -- Memes -- Chinese junk and Chinese whispers -- Models of the world -- The argument from personal incredulity -- The God delusion -- Full circle
  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index

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