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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

New Frontier

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Everything

If you rewrote any of your books today or 10 years from now, would you expect that there would be any major or even subtle differences based on what we've discovered? Brett Weinstein in a debate with Richard Dawkins sort of lamented that since the Selfish Gene or since Dawkins, we haven't had any real fundamental discoveries or innovations within biology. And then lastly, accused Richard of not taking his own ideas seriously of willing to apply sort of cultural evolution to ideas.

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