HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025150 SCIENCE IN THE SOUL Selected Shorter Writings By Richard Dawkins, Edited by Gillian Somerscales [UK — Transworld; Manuscript; Pub Date: June 2017; 110,000 words] A new book from Richard Dawkins, internationally bestselling author and one of the greatest scientists of our age. As much as his full length books such as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion, have changed our perceptions of both science and the world it opens, his essays and articles are potent, pithy, thought provoking and revealing windows into the world as he, himself, perceives it. Science in the Soul is a collection of some of Dawkins' best writing: articles and lectures, reflections and polemics, reviews, forewords, tributes or eulogies, both published and unpublished. From the introduction, by Gillian Somerscales: "Richard Dawkins has always defied categorization. One eminent biologist of mathematical bent reviewing The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype was startled to find a scientific work apparently free of logical errors and yet containing not a single line of mathematics; he could come to no other conclusion than that, incomprehensible as it seemed to him, 'Dawkins . . . apparently thinks in prose.' "If readers of what follows here come to appreciate not only the writer's clarity of thought and facility of expression, the fearlessness with which he confronts very large elephants in very small rooms, the energy with which he devotes himself to explication of the complex and the beautiful in science, but also some of the generosity, kindness and courtesy that have characterized all my dealings with Richard over the years since that first collaboration, then the present volume will have achieved one of its aims. "It will have achieved another if it embodies a condition felicitously described in one of the essays reproduced here, where 'harmonious parts flourish in the presence of each other, and the illusion of a harmoniou