For Juliet: Review of A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins (2003), NY: Houghton Mifflin. Whether in short essays or book reviews, Dawkins is at his best when he attacks, defends, or counterattacks. A Devil’s Chaplain shows this fencing master to be fit, agile, and combative nearly 30 years after The Selfish Gene. He thrusts and…
The following is posted at http://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionary. A review of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by MattRidley, 344 pp., NY: Harper Collins, 2000, $26. James Brody, Ph.D. Genome has been with us for 18 months. Nonetheless, Ridley’s prose is stillengaging, his outlooks refreshing and he has been praised widely, perhapsbecause Genome is…
The following is also posted at http://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionaryalong with supplemental essays.—————— Imo and Frans Wrote a BookA review of: De Waal, F. (2001) The Ape and the Sushi Master: CulturalReflections of a Primatologist. NY: Basic Books. 433 pp., $26 list.James Brody, Ph.D.Editor, Evolutionary Psychology & Clinical Sociobiologyhttp://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionary We each build our own nest with our lives,…