Il gene egoista. La parte immortale di ogni essere vivente

- What some people seem to find hard to understand is that there's a part of you, in fact the most important part, that's immaterial and immortal. Your body is really no more than a temporary shell for the immortal part, and houses it for a little while until it dies. But what you do during that sho Leggi tutto

Didactic, patronizing, condescending and arguably neo-intellectual twaddle. I do not believe in a God, certainly not any God that's been conceived by man, but I also believe Richard Dawkins is a self-satisfied thought-Nazi who is as fundamental in his view of religion as any right-wing minister. Fun Leggi tutto

نحن لسنا إلا مركبات تنتقل الجينات عبرها من جيل إلى جيلتشهد تطور الخليقة منذ بدئها وحتى اندثارهاوترتبط أهميتنا بما نستطيع تقديمه لتلك الجينات كي تنتشر وتظل موجودة وكلما كانت هذه الجينات "أنانية" بقت واستمرت وانتشرت يتصرف الجين عموما بطريقة تعزز فرص نجاته على حساب الجينات الأخرى المنافسةفهل هذا ما يود Leggi tutto

I read the 30th anniversary edition of this book--it is a true "classic". I note that there are over 48,000 ratings and 1,400 reviews of this book on Goodreads! Richard Dawkins put an entirely original slant on Darwin's theory of natural selection. The book has turned people around, to the understan Leggi tutto

I kept this book on my TBR list for so long, it's time to read it! I'm curious to learn how genes influence us. Richard Dawkins argues that genes prioritize their replication, with organisms acting as vehicles for this process. This focus on gene replication, according to Dawkins, can lead to significa Leggi tutto

لم أر أكثر أنانية من عبدالباسط حموده الذى بدأ أغنية أنا مش عارفنى قائلا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا أنا مش عارفنى أنا تهت منى أنا مش أناما كفاية أنا واحده يا أستاذ عبدالباسط بلاش الإسراف دهمن منا لا يحب نفسههل حب النفس هو أنانية أم أن الأنانية هي الميل إلى عدم التعاون مع الغيرفي الواقع ا Leggi tutto

Richard Dawkins shot to celebrity in 1976 with this rabble-rousing book, which change the game by inventing the word "meme" and basically nothing else, the rest of his ideas range from "ehhh not exactly" to "yeah but so what." Fun to read though! The gist is that the essential unit of life is the ge Leggi tutto

Color me very impressed. I can now see why this is considered to be one of those hugely popular science books I keep hearing about and the reason why Dawkins has become so widely known and/or respected with or without his notoriety. Indeed, the pure science bits were pretty much awesome. We, or at le Leggi tutto