http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#dawkins ``<a href="darwin.html">Darwin</a>'s pit-bull.'' (I think that phrase is mine, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone else beat me to it.) Notoriously, a British ethologist, <a href="evolution.html">evolutionary theorist</a> and popularizer. I agree whole-heartedly with almost everything of his I read, but this may have something to do with having imprinted on <cite>The Blind Watchmaker</cite> at the age of fourteen. <P>His reputation. Evidence that his critics have actually read him. (Once, arguing about sociobiology with some social scientists, I read them the last paragraphs of <cite>The Selfish Gene,</cite> and their shock when I told them the name of the author was quite gratifying.) <P><a href="memes.html">Memes.</a> <P>Recommended: <ul> <li><cite>The Selfish Gene</cite> <li><cite>The Extended Phenotype</cite> <li><cite>The Blind Watchmaker</cite> <li><cite>Climbing Mount Improbable</cite> </ul>