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Title: eloquent, at times brilliant, but a bit much
Review: I greatly enjoyed this book, which is a splendid introduction and defence of neo-Darwinism. Like the best of SJ Gould, the book has real flavor because its author has a strong point of view; but just Dawkins' writing style - clear, bold, beautiful - should make it a classic of the popularization genre.However, the strong view also points to bias, in Dawkins' case a combination of strict genetic determinism and an obsession with computer analogies. Frankly, computer simulations and pseudo-discovery stories, which over-rated magazines like WIRED promote and hype ad infinitum, are boring: so many of these books on "complexity" etc. just repeat the same stuff. Unfortunately, a lot of that seems to have originated with Dawkins, who at least does it better than most of his copiers.
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