Richard Dawkins is the first holder of Oxford University's newly endowed Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public
Understanding of Science. He is the author of two acclaimed bestsellers, The Blind Watchmaker, which won both the
Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science, and the even better known The
Selfish Gene.
Review
"Dawkins is above all a masterly expositor, a writer who understands the issues so clearly that he forces
his readers to understand them too. River Out of Eden displays these virtues to the full."
--New York Times Book Review
"Dawkins has gone to the heart of his subject and presented it with energy, insight, verve."
--Los Angeles Times
Perseus Books Group Web Site, July, 2000
Summary
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe,
is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times
described his style as "the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard
Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.
Table of Contents
The Digital River
All Africa and Her Progenies
Do Good by Stealth
God's Utility Function
The Replication Bomb
