The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a blind one-working without foresight or purpose.In an eloquent, uniquely persuasive account of the theory of natural selection, Dawkins illustrates how simple organisms slowly change over time to crea…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-35149-1
- EAN: 9780393351491
- Produktnummer: 23452354
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.0 cm 394 g
- Gewicht: 394
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Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and is the author of The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, and many other books.
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