Devil's Chaplain（ISBN=9780618485390）

　　The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also are moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collection ends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.

　　Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995. His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time., They include The Selfish Gene (1976), River Out of Eden (1995), and Unweaving the Rainbow (1999).

Introduction to the American Edition
1 Science and Sensibility
　A Devil's Chaplain
　What is Tree?
　Gaps in the Mind
　Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair
　Trial By Jury
　Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls
　Postmodernism Disrobed
　The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle
2 Light Will Be Thrown
　Light Will Be Thrown
　Darwin Triumphant
　The 'Information Challenge'
　Genes Aren't Us
　Son of Moore's Law
3 The Infected.Mind
　Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers
　Viruses of the Mind
　The Great Convergence
　Dolly and the Cloth Heads
　Time to Stand Up
4　They Told Me, Heraclitus
　Lament for Douglas
　Eulogy for Douglas Adams
　Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton
　Snake Oil
5　Even the Ranks of Tuscany
　Reioicing in Multifarious Nature
　The Art of the Developable
　Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends
　Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress
　Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight
6　There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us
　Ecology of Genes
　Out of the Soul of Africa
　I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys
　Heroes and Ancestirs
7　A Prayer for My Daughter
　Good and Bad Reasons for Believing
Endnotes
Index