Richard Dawkins's Publisher Has a Cute Idea, but Biomorphs Appeal More as Nostalgia than Science

Someone clever at the publisher Penguin had a nifty idea: reissue three titles by Richard Dawkins, each decorated uniquely with an adorable Dawkins biomorph. From New Scientist:

First let loose upon the public at the inaugural Artificial Life conference at Los Alamos in New Mexico in 1987, these revolutionary computer-based critters, which variously took the form of waves, shells and insects, were some of the first, and certainly the most influential digital demonstrations of evolution in ac...