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This is not Dawkins's best one. The book's structure is original, and the message, as usual, highly relevant, but the repetitiveness that results from the coalescences gets annoying. Also, Dawkins has not gone to great lengths to make the book accessible. The level of the text is rather uneven. Some chapters are splendid science writing, while others are humdrum, dense, or even impossible to wade through.
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What a magnificent journey. Illuminates relatively unknown parts of web of life and its evolution and connections.
informative and Easy to understand.
What a magnificent journey. Illuminates relatively unknown parts of web of life and its evolution and connections.
informative and Easy to understand.

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