Dawkins, Richard,  1941- <br/><br/>
Brief Candle in the Dark :  My Life in Science / 
 My life in science 
Richard Dawkins 
 - First US edition 
 - 455 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some color) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Flashback at a feast -- Oh, the things that are done by a don -- Lore of the jungle -- Go to the wasp, thou sluggard: evolutionary economics -- The delegate's tale -- Christmas lectures -- Islands of the blest -- Whoso findeth a publisher findeth a good thing -- Television -- Debates and encounters -- Simonyi professor -- Unweaving the threads from a scientist's loom -- The Taxicab Theory of evolution -- Extending the phenotype -- Action at a distance -- Rediscovering the organism: passengers and stowaways -- Aftermaths to The extended phenotype -- Constraints on perfection -- The Darwinian engineer in the classroom -- "The genetic book of the dead" and the species as "averaging computer" -- Evolution in pixels -- The evolution of evolvability -- Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Arthromorphs -- The cooperative gene -- Universal Darwinism -- Memes -- Chinese junk and Chinese whispers -- Models of the world -- The argument from personal incredulity -- The God delusion -- Full circle 
<br/><br/> "Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture" -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0062288431 9780593072561 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biologists--Great Britain--Biography<br/>Ethologists--Great Britain--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH31.D39  / A3 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>570.92  / D271