This chapter examines the interplay between car seat safety and the Peltzman Effect, exploring how safety measures may inadvertently encourage riskier behaviors. The conversation shifts to a critical analysis of the existence of God, addressing philosophical, evolutionary, and personal perspectives on faith and belief systems. Furthermore, it introduces 'The Genetic Book of the Dead,' which presents a unique view of animals and humans as texts that reflect their evolutionary history.
The author of the classic The Selfish Gene is still changing the way we think about evolution.
- SOURCE:
- Richard Dawkins, professor emeritus of the public understanding of science at Oxford University.
- RESOURCES:
- The Genetic Book of the Dead, by Richard Dawkins (2024).
- Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution, by Richard Dawkins (2021).
- "About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated," by Gregory A. Smith (Pew Research Center, 2021).
- Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, by Nick Davies (2015).
- The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (2006).
- "Why the Universe Seems So Strange," by Richard Dawkins (TED Global, 2005).
- "Surprising Stats About Child Carseats," by Steve Levitt (TED Global, 2005).
- "Genes and Memes," by John Maynard Smith (London Review of Books, 1982).
- The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, by Richard Dawkins (1982).
- The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins (1976).
- "Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children," by Gary Becker and Nigel Tomes (Journal of Political Economy, 1976).
- "Selective Pecking in the Domestic Chick," by Richard Dawkins (University of Oxford Ph.D. thesis, 1966).