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‘Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success’ Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridl...
The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen...
How New Ideas Emerge
“Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom...
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of...
How Nature Turns on Nurture
“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” �...
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turn...
‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a pl...
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up....
How Ideas Emerge
We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Acclaimed author Matt Ridley shows just how wrong this is in his compelling new book. We are taught ...
The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderful...
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for socia...
A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems
Dr Ridley is one of a number of environmentalists who are seeking to counter the inaccurate and misleading opinions of 'mainstream environmentalism'. ...
Discoverer of the Genetic Code
Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix struct...
The genome's been mapped.But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three...
autobiographie de l'espèce humaine en 23 chapitres
Qui sommes-nous ? D'où venons-nous ? Où allons-nous ? Pour comprendre les véritables conséquences de la plus importante découverte scientifique d...
‘It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to...
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Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadn’t invented it, would we be still living in th...
The Munk Debates
Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the ...
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Genes, Experience and what Makes Us Human
This science writer looks at the hundred year debate about whether people's qualities are determined by their genes or by their environment. He sugges...
die Geschichte des menschlichen Genoms
If, as Matt Ridley suggests, science is simply the search for new forms of ignorance, then perhaps it follows that with science's advances come new qu...
The Men who Would be Bush
The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin's revelatory theory of mate choice through the close s...
From acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley, a new book that studies the peculiar mating behaviour of birds to better understand the origin of beauty an...