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Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393316823

ISBN-139780393316827

eBay Product ID (ePID)151127

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameClimbing Mount Improbable

SubjectEmbryology, Référence, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Life Sciences / Biology

Publication Year1997

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Science, Medical

AuthorRichard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsMount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements . . . a perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking. -- Observer Dazzling, -- David Attenborough

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal501

SynopsisThe metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to perfection takes time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of extraordinary adaptations such as the teeming populations of figs, the intricate silken world of spiders, and the evolution of wings on the bodies of flightless animals. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Climbing Mount Improbable is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age., A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker., A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker . The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in writing that the New York Times called "a masterpiece"--Richard Dawkins builds a carefully reasoned and lovingly illustrated argument for evolutionary adaptation as the mechanism for life on earth. The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to perfection takes time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of extraordinary adaptations such as the teeming populations of figs, the intricate silken world of spiders, and the evolution of wings on the bodies of flightless animals. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Climbing Mount Improbable is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age.

LC Classification NumberQH375