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Welcome to the Michael Sherman Show.

Welcome to the Michael Sherman Show. It's Michael Schurmer. My guest today is

the Great Richard Dawkins. New book is books do furnish a life,

reading and writing science.

As you know, Richard needs no introduction, but I'll give him one anyway.

He was voted the Royal Society's most inspiring science book of all time and also the best

seller is The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improvable, The Ancestors' Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of an autobiography, an appetite

for wonder and brief candle in the dark.

He's a fellow of New College Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries. I have to agree, he is

one of the great thinkers of our time, really of all time, and certainly in evolutionary theory,

one of the most important since Darwin. His new book is a

compendium or a collection of his forwards, afterwards, reviews, essays,

commentaries on books, mostly science books, a lot of evolutionary books and so

forth.

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So it's really great for example.

I took this one years ago called the Darwinian Revolution at Propo, my guest today, in which

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