Dawkins' God

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Darwinism: The Rise of a Scientific Theory 7

Natural Selection: Charles Darwin 9

The Mechanics of Inheritance: Gregor Mendel 18

The Discovery of the Gene: Thomas Hunt Morgan 21

The Role of DNA in Genetics 24

What’s in a Name? “Darwinism” or “Evolutionary Theory”? 26

2 The Selfish Gene: A Darwin...