River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
- Authors:
- Richard Dawkins (author), Lalla Ward (illustrator) and Rick Pracher (covers)
- Language:
- English
- Original language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Publication year:
- 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-0-465-06990-3
- Synopsis:
This is only partly a book about evolution. In the last chapter (The Replication Bomb) Dawkins speculates on ten thresholds that life goes through on its way to interstellar emigration. (The analogy is to a supernova. Just as a star can go supernova, a planet might explode with life.)
The book also goes through some very neat experiments on bees and the evolution of a bee dance that codes for location of food.
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- Table of Contents:
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- Preface
- 1 The Digital River
- 2 All Africa and Her Progenies
- 3 Do Good by Stealth
- 4 God's Utility Function
- 5 The Replication Bomb
- Bibliography and Further Reading
- Index
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