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With the publication of the international bestsellerThe Selfish Genesome thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of und...

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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year

The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a ...