《新科学家》 第270卷 第3601期 · 2026年6月27日 · 中文解读
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Unpopular popular science · Alison Flood
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Not everyone in the New Scientist Book Club was impressed with The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 50 years on, says Alison Flood THE New Scientist Book Club has been reading a popular-science classic in June: Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Pwhipp was in the minority, however. Alan_P was one rereader who felt “underwhelmed”. “The text is (as he admits himself but doesn’t change) sexist throughout,” he wrote. “The tone is argumentative. The endless footnotes contradicting the text are really difficult to follow. If the science has changed then the text of the book needs to change as well. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第270卷 第3601期 · 2026年6月27日,Alison Flood。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。

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