A book dedicated to the development of life on Earth through evolution and natural selection. The author actively encourages the reader’s scientific and critical thinking, and also helps overcome entrenched remnants of religious fundamentalism and superstition—while engagingly explaining in the book the facts of evolution, scientific research, and all the beauty and diversity of the world around us.
Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist and evolutionary biologist and the author of popular science books. He is the head of the Charles Simony Chair at Oxford University, a position whose purpose is to familiarize the general public with the achievements of science.