Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution
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Whatever your opinion of ‘Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls ‘Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish genes’ and ‘memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird droppings is alone worth the price of the book. Darwinian Fairytales should be read and pondered by anyone interested in sociobiology, the origin of altruism, and the awesome process of evolution. --Martin Gardner, author of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
AcknowledgementsPrefaceEssay IDarwinism's Dilemma1Essay IIWhere Darwin First Went Wrong about Man13Essay III'But what about War, Pestilence, and All That?'31Essay IVPopulation, Privilege, and Malthus' Retreat39Essay VA Horse in the Bathroom or the Struggle for Life53Essay VITax and the Selfish Girl or Does Altruism Need Inverted Commas?79Essay VIIGenetic Calvanism or Demons and Dawkins118Essay VIII'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' or Altruism and Shared Genes137Essay IXA New Religion171Essay XPaley's Revenge or Purpose Regained178Essay XIErrors of Heredity or The Irrelevance of Darwinism to Human Life212
