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The biologist [[Jerry Coyne]], writing in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'', criticises ''Genome'' as "at once instructive and infuriating. For each nugget of science, Ridley also includes an error or misrepresentation. Some of these derive from poor scholarship: others from his political agenda." Coyne argues that Ridley is an "implacable" genetic determinist, denying the influence of the environment, and calling his politics "right-wing". He calls the book's structure "eccentric" and "bizarre", the chapters matching the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, and notes that ''Genome'' is the third of Ridley's books that "tries to popularise" [[evolutionary psychology]].<ref name=Coyne>{{cite journal |last1=Coyne |first1=Jerry |title=Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley |journal=London Review of Books |date=27 April 2000 |volume=22 |issue=9 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/jerry-coyne/not-an-inkling}}</ref>

 

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