'Dawkins first book, The Selfish Gene, was a smash hit ... Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology - some of it truly subtle - in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)' -- H. Allen Orr, Professor of Biology, University of Rochester, in The New York Review of Books 'This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' -- W. D. Hamilton, Science 'Learned, witty, and very well written ... exhilaratingly good.' -- Sir Peter Medawar, The Spectator