Editor's Summary

26 October 2006

A Good Book?

Richard Dawkins takes the gloves off, so to speak, in his new book The God Delusion. The demerits of religion are the subject of the book, not just a sidebar as in previous works. Dawkins' latest, and biographies of Francis Crick and Jane Goodall, feature in this week's book reviews special.

Autumn Books: The Chomsky of morality?

A view of morality as the product of an innate mental faculty — rather like language.

doi:10.1038/443909a

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Autumn Books: Evidence for evolution

doi:10.1038/443910a

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Autumn Books: Battlefield between the ears

doi:10.1038/443911a

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Autumn Books: Experimental theatre

doi:10.1038/443913a

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Autumn Books: Sermons and straw men

doi:10.1038/443914a

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Autumn Books: The hero of Gombe

doi:10.1038/443915a

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Autumn Books: The theorist

doi:10.1038/443917a

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Autumn Books: Coping with uncertainty

doi:10.1038/443918a

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