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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the ��è��Ƶ Book Club’s read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published

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'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

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'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

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PERUGIA, ITALY - NOVEMBER 24: Amanda Knox (C) is led away from Perugia's court of Appeal by police officers after the first session of her appeal against her murder conviction on November 24, 2010 in Perugia, Italy. American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of the murder of Ms Knox's former British flatmate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Their trial took place in December 2009 with Knox and Sollecito receiving sentences of 26 and 25 years respectively. Rudy Guede, an unemployed man from Ivory Coast, was also convicted of the Meredith Kercher's murder. The case is also forming the basis for a film currently being shot in Italy entitled 'The Amanda Knox Story', with American actress Hayden Panettiere cast as Amanda Knox. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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The late Ian Watson's sci-fi The Embedding is intriguing – but dated

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Earth from Above author returns with astonishing freshwater images

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Earth from Above author returns with astonishing freshwater images

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Luminous book jacket and author Silvia Park

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Our verdict on Luminous by Silvia Park: a fascinating take on robots

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Author Silvia Park: 'No one is your enemy, not even death'

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The early moments of the nuclear blast on 16 July 1945

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Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins’s first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers’s desk – and life was never the same

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After news about Oliver Sacks's "lies", we revisit his best-loved book

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Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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