
Genes as a river of digital information; a short Dawkins primer
Chosen by shared topics, the entries that hold them, and the people who recommended both.
How cooperation and morality evolved from self-interest, via the prisoner's dilemma.
“I really highly, highly recommend picking up Genome, The Red Queen, Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist, and The Evolution of Everything.” — Naval Ravikant
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show — Naval Ravikant Q&A, full transcript
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant, Ryan Holiday
Behavioural genetics on how much of an outcome is inherited
Recommended by: James Cameron, Michael Mauboussin
Twenty-three chapters, one per chromosome, each using a gene to open a subject.
“I highly recommend Genome as well, to figure out the rational basis behind ethics and the origin of virtue.” — Naval Ravikant
Source: Nav.al — 'Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2' (Naval's podcast, edited transcript)
Recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others
Species change over time as natural selection favours heritable variations.
“may have done more than any, with the exception of the Bible, to shape man's self-perception” — Nick Sleep
Source: Nomad Investment Partnership, Interim Letter for the period ended June 30th, 2009, p. 158
Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant and 5 others
Twenty years of watching Galapagos finches show evolution happening in real time.
Recommended by: Sam Altman
How natural selection, not a designer, produces the complexity of living things.
Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others
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