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- Marc Dierckx
- 07.10.2015
The meme about the gene
Even after close to 40 years this books delivers a fascinating and compelling story about the true shapers of history. The suspense is kept throughout the book as every new concept crushes the old or at least puts it into perspective: memes as potential supergenes, genes extending their influence across living creatures and ensembles that should be regarded as single living beings, just to name of few.
The book is full of brilliant ideas but at the same time a proof of the limiations of the human mind: the relative brief span from the publishing date to today are enough to make some apects of the book obsolete: the inability of the human race to foresee the extend of computer development, the complete negation of epigenetics and the absence of black swans in the repeated games.
The book made me sad not to have read it 30 years ago but I enjoyed every page of it. Even made more compelling by the fact that it was read by the author and his (third) wife
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- Henrik
- 18.03.2017
A classic and must read
One of those few books, where there is a before and an after in the way you think about the living works.
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- Dirk Jungnickel
- 19.06.2017
Excellent book!
Excellent book! Highly recommend for anybody with a scientific mindset and willing to transcend preconceived 'truths' about life and evolution.
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- Stefan und Sophie Eckhardt
- 17.10.2018
A view on life as important as Newtons model of physics
Dawkins reviews and reflects the state of research in biology to give a brief an entertaining view on what Darwins Theory of natural selection is all about
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- TH
- 28.09.2018
What a remarkable audiobook!
Not only is Dawkins a superb thinker and writer but also the perfect narrator. It doesn't get much better than this.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 04.09.2018
Ein Klassiker unter den Darwinisten
Richard Dawkins‘ wohl wichtiges Werk, welches Ende der 70er Jahre die Erkenntnisse rund um Evolution nach vorne katapultiert hat. Dennoch ist es sehr langatmig, mit zahlreichen repetitiven Vergleichen versetzt und an manchen Stellen zu selbstgerecht.
Wer Interesse an diesem Gebiet hat, muss da wohl durch.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 03.08.2018
Fantastic
Absolutely tremendous book. I thought I understood evolution, but this book showed me that I didn't have a clue. Very well reasoned, Dawkins is a master at explaining, starting from very simple premises about replicators and reaching grand conclusions.
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- Andres Mlinar
- Munich, Deutschland
- 29.06.2018
Excellent book read by its author.
This is an important book that everyone should read. It clearly explain the true meaning of evolution. As relevant today as when it was initially published. The reading by the author preserves the complete meaning of it.
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- MIKHEIL P.
- 30.11.2016
Warning: This will change ypur view of the world.
Absolutely amazing. I read this book 3 times already and Audio of Lala and Richard himself is amazing. Richard Dawkins explains and delivers some of the most sophisticated topics of Biology in a way, that a 10 year old would not have a problem understanding it. At the same time for some people there might be a danger, that the view of the world as we know it will be questioned over and over again. It might be quite dangerous for the reader who is not able to put things in perspective and mix the concepts of "is" and "should be". In any case what ever you are doing in your free time stop doing it now and read this book.
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- Mowljo
- 23.06.2018
What a boring intro
I would really like to know when this book finally gets interesting. Im now two hours in and this self glorifing doctor talks and talks about how spectacular his book is and how great his research is for other people. There are from time to time certain bits that are interesting but its sounds like its all just a build up to a reveal that actually never comes because he talks endlessly about unimportant and for the listener uninteresting things. Sometimes common knowledge, sometimes not. I tried a couple of times to get trough this boring span but always kept clicking away after he got into his uninteresting rhytmus again. I heard much good from this book and from the recessions it looks awesome but when does this book actually start? When comes the big reveal? When does he show actual research? When will he start to make the audience interested in his work? Right now Im gonna but it off till I someone can tell me from what chapter on the book gets interesting and engaging.
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