Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: 137. Richard Dawkins on God, Genes, and Murderous Baby Cuckoos | People I (Mostly) Admire
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"Richard Dawkins is both a distinguished scholar of zoology and evolutionary biology and a remarkably successful popularizer of scientific ideas through his bestselling books, including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion."
The God Delusion
Buy on Amazon"Richard Dawkins is both a distinguished scholar of zoology and evolutionary biology and a remarkably successful popularizer of scientific ideas through his bestselling books, including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion."
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"In 2017, the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's Academy of Sciences, conducted a public poll asking readers to name the most influential science book of all time. The winner was The Selfish Gene."
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"I have to start with a confession: before last week, I'd never read your book, The Selfish Gene. I have now, and I was quite shocked at how eye-opening the book was for me."
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"One of the most striking chapters in The Selfish Gene is chapter 11 on memes, and I've often heard people say, 'Oh, Richard Dawkins created the term meme,' but I always honestly thought of memes as being somewhat trivial because now they're very much associated with internet fads."
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"In the concluding chapter of the first edition of The Selfish Gene, I cast around for another example of a replicator. I wasn't then aware of computer viruses; otherwise, I might have chosen the computer virus as my analogy."
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"About the same time you were writing The Selfish Gene, Gary Becker was writing a book on the economics of the family, and a lot of the same trade-offs are in place."
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"So you talk in The Selfish Gene about the quantity of children and the trade-off between more offspring and higher investment and so better outcomes per child."
The God Delusion
Buy on Amazon"This is, in some sense, leading to talking to you about the reactions you've gotten when you've argued against religion in books like The God Delusion."
The God Delusion
Buy on Amazon"It seems, as one reads The God Delusion or your other books and writings on the topic, it's really difficult or even impossible to argue with you."