CeilingCat
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Damning with faint praise department: DeNews gives the good news on "Junk DNA" by Wells: | Quote | | Over the weekend, Jonathan Wells’s The Myth of Junk DNA broke into the top five on Amazon’s list of books dealing with genetics — a list normally dominated at its pinnacle by various editions of Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. |
Ah, yep. Better news: It's number four now! Whoopie! Break out the non-alcoholic champaign and celebrate.
There are a couple of flies in the ointment, though.
First of all, "The Selfish Gene" was published over 30 years ago. Having a newly issued book, which is being bought by all the IDrones with pocket money, temporarily pull ahead of a thirty year old book is not that great of an accomplishment.
Secondly, positions one through three on that list are filled by copies of .... The Selfish Gene!
Own goal!
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