Richard Dawkins is an outstanding British ethologist and tireless popularizer of science, winner of many literary and scientific awards, author of the books "The Selfish Gene", "The Extended Phenotype", "The Blind Watchmaker", "Unweaving the Rainbow", "The God Delusion" and others, translated into many languages. His works played a huge role in the revival of interest in scientific literature addressed to a wide readership.
R. Dawkins' new book is a conversation with a young reader. Most of its chapters are titled with a question: "Who was the first man?", "What is everything made of?", "What is a rainbow?" or "Why do bad things happen?" The author not only tries to give accessible and convincing answers to them, but also talks about how scientists come to solve the riddles that the Universe tirelessly presents to humanity. True, even today it is far from possible to explain everything, writes Dawkins, but one of the main advantages of science is that "scientists know when they do not know the answer to a question. They happily declare their ignorance. The joy is appropriate here, because the search for the right answer is a fascinating activity."
Author: Richard Dawkins
Artist: McKeen Dave
Editor: Varvara Gornostaeva
Translation: Buntman N.V.
Year of issue: 2022
Publisher: Corpus
Pages: 272
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 263x203x21 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-093709-7