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Steve Jones - The Selfish Gene at 40
... a quote from The Selfish gene, Richard Dawkins' landmark book that was first published in 1976. I caught up with ... of genetics at UCL - Steve Jones, to find out how the book, and the ideas in it, were received when it first came ... which isn't to deny the fact that it's a very important book in the public perception of genetics. Kat - From what I ...
What makes a mammal?
... Collection in central London for a chat about his new book on this very subject - I, Mammal. Liam - You look it up ... unique jaw joint... And I figured that each chapter of the book would describe fairly independently how each of these ... to try and move beyond that... Kat - This is a scientific book obviously! Liam - Yes, exactly. Well, I did end up ...
Everyone who ever lived
... the way. This genetic journey is the subject of a new book - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - by ... interbred with Neanderthals. Now I argue in the book that that means that they were not a different species ... Kat - I found this mind bending when I was reading the book. There's so many amazing things in there. You're digging ...
How does evolution produce new genes?
... that do the copying make a mistake, it's like me copying a book - I've got a book opened in front of me and I'm reading off the book and making a new copy in a second book, I might ...
Evolutionary biology 101
... Darwin. Darwin planned to spend most of his life writing a book that was going to be called ‘Natural Selection’. And ... within a year. And The Origin as a result is a much better book than the big Natural Selection book would ever have been, it would have been unreadable. So ...
The impact of fire
If the Jungle Book is anything to go by, man's mastery of fire is what ... encouraged by what they are seeing. In the year since my book was published there have been several sites that were ...
Creationism vs. Science
... listening to a street preacher and Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene - made some incisive points. It ... suggestions for creationism. Professor Martin Rees's book 'Just Six Numbers' describes how life and the universe ...
The Case for Creationism...
... So where did the laws of physics come from? In his book "Just Six Numbers", the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, ...
Why do humans get bored?
... listening to an audiobook compared when you’re reading a book? And does this affect how much details you can remember? ...
Inside the Neanderthal Mind
... of senses of humour; indeed only Steve Mithen in his book, The Prehistory of the Mind , poses the question, and ...
What herbaria tell us about crop pathogens
... things are nevertheless documented in its inner "genomic" book, which reveals more than any historical document in the ...
How big is the Universe?
... treat them. Graihagh - More poignant points in Neil's book is out now - check it out, it's called "Welcome to the ...
What is the purpose of sexual reproduction ?
... to argue. One interesting theory raised in the book 'The Red Queen' is that sex has evolved as a protection ...
Dating the Hobbit
... Thank you very much Chris Turney. Chris has also written a book on this subject called Bones, Rocks and Stars: the ...
Evolution: Past, Present and Future
... question of climate change because Amitav Ghosh, in his book, The Great Derangement, for instance makes the point. ...