Sci & Tech● Low1h ago · Nov 4, 2026, 6:00 PM
The DNA is backwards on The Selfish Gene’s cover – again
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Feedback notes with weary inevitability that a 50th anniversary edition of Richard Dawkins's classic work features a double-helix twisting the wrong way – not for the first time
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