About the book
Richard Dawkins's shortest book pictures life as a river of DNA flowing through geological time, with organisms serving as temporary bodies for genes. Across five chapters he traces human ancestry back along many gene pathways, with special attention to the African Eve, argues that gradual natural selection is the only mechanism able to produce the complexity of nature, and shows genes as indifferent to the bodies they build and discard. The last chapter reviews milestones in the history of life on Earth and speculates that similar processes may unfold on other planets. Published in 1995 in the Science Masters series and illustrated by Lalla Ward, it summarizes ideas from The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and The Extended Phenotype.
Ray Dalio said it is the book he would give every graduating senior, a very short book on evolution that puts things in perspective.
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Ray Dalio (Founder/Bridgewater Associates)
The book I’d give [every graduating senior in college or high school] would be [...] 'River From Eden' by Richard Dawkins. Another very short book on evolution, it just really puts things in perspective.
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