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I recommend Richard Dawkins’s and E. O. Wilson’s books on evolution. If I had to pick just one, it would be Dawkins’s River Out of Eden.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
A part of Dawkins’s purpose was to explain altruism: behavior in individuals that goes against their own best interests. Nature is full of examples of animals risking their own lives in behalf of their progeny, their cousins, or just fellow members of their genetic club. Furthermore, they share food; they cooperate in building hives and dams; they
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Dawkins named his tour-de-force account of neo-Darwinism The Selfish Gene because he wanted to stress that evolution does not especially promote the ‘welfare’ of species or individual organisms. But, as he also explained, it does not promote the ‘welfare’ of genes either: it adapts them not for survival in larger numbers, nor indeed for survival at
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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