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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 ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Book Club’s read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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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

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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Humans

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Humans

Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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Humans

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion

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Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes

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The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Humans

Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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