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**Skeptical Inquirer Presents**:
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?

In *Flights of Fancy*, Richard Dawkins explains how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. From the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella fairyfly and the Peregrine falcon. But it is also about flights of the mind, about escaping the everyday – through science, ideas and imagination.

Fascinating and beautifully illustrated, this is a unique collaboration between one of the world’s leading scientists and a talented artist.

Dawkins will be interviewed on his latest book by professor Jerry Coyne.
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Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and bestselling author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, now a division of the Center for Inquiry.

Jerry Coyne is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Coyne’s work has been largely concerned with the genetics of species differences, aimed at understanding the evolutionary processes that produce new species. He has written 120 refereed scientific papers and 170 popular articles, book reviews, and columns, as well as a scholarly book about his research area—*Speciation*, co-authored with H. Allen Orr—and a trade book about the evidence for evolution—*Why Evolution is True*, a *New York Times* bestseller. His second book, *Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible* (Viking/Penguin Random House) appeared in May, 2015. Coyne is a contributor *The New York Times*, *The New Republic*, *The Times Literary Supplement*, *The Guardian*, *The Nation*, *USA Today*, and other popular periodicals. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the 2011 “Emperor Has No Clothes” Award from the Freedom from Religion Foundation as well as the 2015 Richard Dawkins Award from the Atheist Alliance of America.

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