River Out of Eden
Author: Richard Dawkins
The river of Dawkins’s title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present – and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: ‘Life is just bytes and bytes of information,’ he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken….Read More
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