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  1. River Out of Eden by R. Dawkins, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £9.99, ISBN 0 297 81540 7

  2. The Selfish Gene by R. Dawkins, Oxford University Press, £8.99, ISBN 0 192 86092 5

  3. Major Transitions in Evolution by J. Maynard Smith, W. H. Freeman, ISBN 0 716 74525 9

  4. The Red Queen by M. Ridley, Penguin, £7.99, ISBN 0 140 16772 2

  5. The Language of the Genes, by Steve Jones, Collins, £7.99, ISBN 0 006 54676 5

  6. The Blind Watchmaker by R. Dawkins, Penguin, £7.99, ISBN 0 140 16977 6

  7. The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson, Penguin, £7.99, ISBN 0 140 16977 6

  8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by J. Diamond, Hutchison, £6.99, ISBN 0 099 91380 1

  9. The Hot Zone by R. Preston, Doubleday, £14.99, ISBN 0 385 40631 2

  10. What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger, Canto/Cambridge, £6.95, ISBN 0 521 42708 8

Richard Dawkins dominates the biobestsellers

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List prepared in collaboration with Blackwell, Oxford. Fax: 01865 794143

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