However, when he looked back at the work he had published, he felt that he had never comprehensively addressed the evidence of common descent. His documentary series The Genius of Charles Darwin looks at Darwin's life and some of the evidence for evolution. These he followed with three books that attempted to address common misunderstandings about evolution. Richard Dawkins has written a number of books about evolution, beginning with The Selfish Gene (1976) and The Extended Phenotype (1982). Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, p. This book is my personal summary of the evidence that the 'theory' of evolution is actually a fact-as incontrovertible a fact as any in science. An audiobook version has also been released, read by Dawkins and his wife Lalla Ward. In its first week of release, it topped The Sunday Times' Bestseller list, with more than twice the sales of its nearest competitor. The book is published in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations by Transworld, and in the United States by Free Press. It sets out the evidence for biological evolution, and is Dawkins's 10th book, following his best-selling critique of religion The God Delusion (2006) and The Ancestor's Tale (2004), which traced human ancestry back to the dawn of life. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution is a 2009 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, which was released on 3 September 2009 in the UK and on 22 September 2009 in the US. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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