On the evening of Jan. 27, 1922, Franz Kafka arrived by horse-drawn sleigh at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, in ...

Whether we are talking about a lizard that spends its days scurrying across hot Sahara sands, or a human being working in a Manhattan skyscraper, we are all a Genetic Book of The Dead, waiting to ...

Dr Dawkins, now 83, has returned with his 19th volume, “The Genetic Book of the Dead". Its working hypothesis is that modern organisms are, indeed, like books, but of a particular, peculiar ...

The great scientist strays into speculation in The Genetic Book of the Dead, his latest defence of his “selfish gene”… A reluctant celebrity who coined the term “radioactivity”, she transformed the ...

Among 206 responses, here are some highlights: The Genetic Book of the Dead - "Natural selection equips every living creature with the genes that enabled its ancestors - a literally unbroken line ...

Tim Flannery is an Australian zoologist and environmentalist. The great scientist strays into speculation in The Genetic Book of the Dead, his latest defence of his “selfish gene” theory of evolution.