Richard Dawkins has an opinion on everything biological, it seems, and in A Devil's
Chaplain, everything is biological. Dawkins weighs in on topics as diverse as ape rights, jury trials, religion, and education, all examined through the lens of natural selection and evolution. Although many of these essays have been published elsewhere, this book is something of a greatest-hits compilation, reprinting many of Dawkins' most famous recent compositions. They are well worth re-reading. His 1998 review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense is as bracing an indictment of
academic obscurantism as the book it covered, although the review reveals some of Dawkins' personal biases as…
This is a great book outlining Dawkins's various ideas on science, religion and philosophy. Those of you who find his other books hard to follow will benefit from this collection of essays and his… Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential and controversial essayists of today. A renowned evolutionary biologist, he currently holds the Charles Simonyi Chair at
Oxford University. In his book A…
