Summary of Richard Dawkins's Flights of Fancy

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#1 Flight of Fancy is a book about flying, and it includes digressions about flights of thought and ideas that take off from thinking about flight itself.

#2 The dream of flying continues today, as we log in to an image of the spinning world and fly virtually from Oxford to Australia. But without straying from science fact, this book will list the ways in which gravity can be tamed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822532809

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Insights on Richard Dawkins's Flights of Fancy

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Flight of Fancy is a book about flying, and it includes digressions about flights of thought and ideas that take off from thinking about flight itself.

#2

The dream of flying continues today, as we log in to an image of the spinning world and fly virtually from Oxford to Australia. But without straying from science fact, this book will list the ways in which gravity can be tamed.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The question of what is wings good for is an example of how we must go beyond dreams of blissful floating among mythical clouds and come down to earth. In a Darwinian world, survival is only a means to the end of reproduction.

#2

The process of survival is not individual, but genetic. The good genes survive and reproduce, while the bad ones don’t. Good genes are those that build bodies that are good at surviving and reproducing, and they pass on those same genes.

#3

Flight is a good thing for the long-term survival of genes that produce flight. Through past generations, those ancestors who produced slightly better flyers passed