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Science 1 January 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5398, pp. 38 - 39
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5398.38
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NATURE OF SCIENCE:
A Wondrous and Poetic Spectrum

A review by Charles M. Vest

Unweaving the Rainbow Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1998. 351 pp. $26. ISBN 0-395-88382-2.

In this assessment of what science is (and is not), Dawkins' tapestry includes strands on the wonder and fascination of science, poetry within science, his continuing jousts with Gould, genes as selfish cooperators, and the importance of coevolution in a variety of contexts.
The author is president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA. E-mail: cmvest{at}mit.edu

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