If you think The God Delusion is “pure fiction” you either haven’t read it or you need to check your understanding of the definition of fiction.

I like audiobooks. They’re good for car journeys. I don’t have many, but I might get this one. I have the paperback but haven’t read it.

Ah yes, The Ancestors Tale. How Stupid of me not to have thought of that ?. A first year biology student’s biology course minus most of the maths.
In an audio version the many marvellous illustrations will be lost though. This is one of the few books where I would really recommend the hard cover version.

I realised I had not been clear about ‘mating behaviour’, it should have been ‘post-mating behaviour’ ☺.
The Wombat’s have their pouch opening caudally, which makes sense for a digger. The question is now: is that caudal orientation derived or the other way round?I (no pun)

The God Delusion is pure fiction (deadly dull as it is).

I also find Kindle doesn’t work so well for non-fiction. Sorry to hear of physical troubles — hope it’s nothing too difficult.

There’s a nice audiobook of The Ancestor’s Tale read by Dawkins. It’s about wandering back through evolutionary history and each ancestor tell a tale about evolution.

Didn’t mean to come across as contrarian, if I did… Just wanted to put in a word for wombats!

I meant typically mammal males copulate and ‘disappear’. It is rare, if not unheard of, that a male mammal takes a major part in raising the young. Kiwi males are brooding the egg, they even get a bald chest and ‘kiwisplain’ themselves over the egg.

Only the ‘God Delusion’? My God, that is ‘deplorable’ ?
I recommend ‘Climbing Mount Improbable’ and ‘River out of Eden’, if you want some more ‘biological’ background (besides the Selfish Gene) and they are ‘easy’, agreeable reads.
I would not recommend ‘The Extended Phenotype’ to start with, it is his most’technical’ popular book, quite dense.

No – basic principles from Why Evolution is True (the book). The only Richard Dawkins I’ve read is The God Delusion. I keep meaning to read The Selfish Gene, but have never got around to it. I own the first part of his autobiography, but have never got around to that either.

I usually only read books in bed these days for physical reasons I won’t bore you with, and Kindle is much easier to manage in bed. However, I don’t like reading non-fiction books electronically. It means I’m very behind in my non-fiction reading of books.