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The Blind Watchmaker
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Dawkins on cumulative selection as the source of biological complexity. Endorsed by Charlie Munger as 'a marvelous book'.
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“A marvelous book”
Quoted from a YouTube video of Munger speaking.
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“Perhaps the best display of expository scientific prose of the twentieth century. It gave me the idea to try my hand at the genre in "The Language Instinct," and had a strong influence on my own writing.”
From Pinker's curated top-ten list for One Grand Books; he credits it as a model for his own science writing.
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Deutsch repeatedly praises Dawkins and Darwinian explanation as a model of a good explanation.
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- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf reading list
- onegrandbooks.com · Steven Pinker reading list
- mostrecommendedbooks.com · David Deutsch Recommended Books link
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