River Out of Eden

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music

CONTENTS
1. The Digital River
2. All Africa and her Prodigies
3. Do Good by Stealth
4. God's Utility Function
5. The Replication Bomb

Richard Dawkins, our most radical Darwinian thinker, is also our best science writer. He writes with clarity, grace and intense intellectual excitement, making River Out of Eden a model of simplicity and power. Douglas Adams.

Dawkins is a superb communicator. His books, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and his latest bestseller, River Out of Eden, are some of the best books ever written on science. Dawkins writes beautifully and clearly, navigating you through subjects like genetics that you may have despaired of ever understanding. He wins literary prizes as well as scientific ones. Megan Tresidder, The Guardian.

He knows how to make ideas thrilling and how to communicate his own wonder. If we are to have serious chatter about evolution, then it is as well we have a Dawkins to put the case.  Bryan Appleyard, The Independent.

Richard Dawkins writes with such passionate advocacy and has such a knack of using simple English for complicated ideas that most people think of him as a popularizer of science, rather than a practitioner-a writer rather than a thinker ... There is another view of Richard Dawkins, one that sees him as leading a revolution in the way scientists think and thereby breaking new intellectual ground himself. Matt Ridley, Times Literary Supplement.

This guy Dawkins writes about DNA like it was poetry. Yes, that's what I thought too; poetry from a scientist? Totally illogical, Captain. But this guy, this guy ... well, he makes it  all make sense, even to arts grads. Tell you, if we 'd had him, at Perth Academy, we'd all be biochemists by now, all of us. David Robinson, The Scotsman.

Dawkins has an enviable gift. He can write books that are fun to read, yet which present fundamental ideas clearly. John Maynard Smith, The Independent