Originally Posted by
Mechalich
My guess would be that it doesn't hold up all that well. Evolutionary biology underwent major changes beginning in the 1990s, due to the combination of widespread acceptance and use of cladistics and the development of viable genetic sequencing techniques. I never read much of Dawkins myself, his style always felt needlessly antagonistic to me, but much contemporary writing on similar subjects, such as works by his erstwhile academic opponent Stephen J Gould, is now seriously dated.