No they are not. It is an absolute disgrace to the other sciences if you put stuff like The Selfish Gene in the same class as Spivak. Do you want people to go around telling CS beginners that Hackers and Painters is an introductory CS textbook? Or to tell a student of complexity theory that the best way to study NP-completeness is through reading Gödel, Escher, Bach?

I'm sorry, when exactly did I say they are in the same class? I'm not a biologist in any way, nor I ever claimed to be one. You could say the same about Harari in that respect. I am talking about introductions. It's the same story with Lewin. It's nowhere near The Feynman Lectures on Physics but those are simply not something suitable for self-education(which is what OP has clearly stated).