There's More to Books than Titles: Reply to Clive Bradley
In WL59, Clive Bradley examined the arguments of Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould. Here, WL61, February 2000, Richard Dawkins replies. I like Clive Bradley's title, "There's more to life than genes" (WL59-60). It is a point I often make myself, not least in Chapters 3 and 11 of The Selfish Gene (which incidentally is published by Oxford University Press, not Penguin). But whereas Bradley has apparently read my book by title only, I followed his article through to the end. His title proves to be the best bit. Bradley's first paragraph perpetuates the old myth about Marx wanting to dedicate...