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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I have read many popular science books on evolution, and my favorite is Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett is a philosopher and this is a more expansive new of Natural Selection than you get from books on biology alone. It is available in the UK, but not in the US, as an ebook.
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I have
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dennett in paperback (in the U.S.) and I agree it is a good book. It has been a few years since I read it but as I recall, he effectively uses that book to referee a disagreement between Gould and Dawkins regarding the concept of "punctuated" evolutionary theory.
It is ironic that virtually all who criticize Darwin have never read Darwin's seminal work and attack him for his views on the origin of life. Nothing could be farther from the truth as Darwin was a religious man. He also named his work
The Origin of Species, not the "Origin of
Life" a fact which is completely ignored and adequately demonstrates ignorance of the contents.