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Every book Richard Prum recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Richard Prum
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The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins is a foundational popular science book that argues complex biological organisms and adaptations arise through natural selection rather than the design of any conscious agent.
Critiqued“this is a title of one of Dawkins book is the idea that the beauty of adaptation by natural selection is that there no agents involved”
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The descent of man
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin is a seminal biological text that extends evolutionary theory to human origins, exploring sexual selection and human variation.
Discussed“because reviewers of The Descent of Man his book on sexual selection in 1871 see the idea of arbitrary evolution of beauty as a traitor to Darwin's true cause”
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a seminal popular science book that presents a gene-centric view of evolution, arguing that natural selection operates at the level of genes rather than organisms or species.
Discussed“The math has supported that for a very long time, but evolutionary biologists are still resistant to it, mostly because many of them grew up reading Richard Dawkins as a teenager, and they feel like their mission in their intellectual life is to rediscover that buzz, and this is the way to do it in birds. So Richard Dawkins is”
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Books Richard Prum wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| 136. The World’s Most Controversial Ornithologist | People I (Mostly) Admire | 2024-07-20 | 4 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book Performance All the Way Down
“what I really Aspire for in performance all the way down is that queer kids will come into the sciences and have that same experience that I did”