Climbing Mount Improbable
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 im…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-07052-1
- EAN: 9780393070521
- Produktnummer: 34245894
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'903 KB
Über den Autor
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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