River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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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.
Table of contents
- 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