Climbing Mount Improbable - Hardcover

Richard Dawkins

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393039307 ISBN 13: 9780393039306

Publisher: Norton, 1996

Synopsis

Arguing fiercely that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of a climb up Mount Improbable to illustrate how natural perfection is due to the unending journey of DNA through time. Tour.

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Review:

Few scientific theories have been as influential or controversial in the past few centuries as Darwin's thoughts on natural selection; even now, laymen and scientists find fault with Darwin's argument. Richard Dawkins, the chair of the communication of science at Oxford University, has delivered a well-researched book supporting and supplementing Darwin's theories. Although not a work of Darwinian proportions, Climbing Mount Improbable is an advancement of those theories for scientists and general readers alike.

Review:

Mount 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."

Dazzling, --David Attenborough

Mount 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Norton
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393039307
• ISBN 13: 9780393039306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 319