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Climbing Mount Improbable

Paperback • 2006 • English

Climbing Mount Improbable

By Richard Dawkins

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adapatation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the mo...Show more

Mathematics and Science
Science: general issues
Biology, life sciences

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ISBN

9780141026176

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Climbing Mount Improbable

Format

Paperback

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