Richard Dawkins's review of The Social Conquest of Earth, by Edward O Wilson (WW Norton, £18.99, May)

The beauty of creation: an interview with Richard Dawkins
COSMOS Managing Editor, Heather Catchpole, caught up with Richard Dawkins to discuss evolution, the origin of life and his plans for his next book.

What kind of meta-ethical foundation has Dawkins provided for his ‘moral home’?

[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.
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Whatever else the Bible might be – and it really is a great work of literature – it is not a moral book and young people need to learn that important fact because they are very frequently told the opposite.

"Governments do not have the authority to say what marriage is or to change its nature or to decree that people of the same sex can marry."

Physicists have confirmed the ultimate speed limit for the packets of light called photons - making time travel even less likely than thought.

"The fact that I have had thousands of messages from around the world speaks for itself about the impact and the way people feel," he said.

A Jewish rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a stray dog it feared was the reincarnation of a lawyer who insulted its judges, reports say.