River Out Of Eden : A Darwinian View of Life : Second printing

Dawkins, Richard

ISBN 10: 0297815407 / ISBN 13: 9780297815402

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, United Kingdom, 1995

About this Item

British edition, second printing, 1995 (same year as first printing). With original unclipped jacket (£9.99). Illustrations by Lalla Ward. Index. Part of the Science Masters series. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd small mark, a little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small crease/rub to edges, odd small scratch, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners and the odd small scrape. Boards are very good with a little pushing/bumping to a couple of corners, the odd very small bump/rub to edges and very minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages little tanned. Previous owner's name and date in pen to front end-paper. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: River Out Of Eden : A Darwinian View of Life : Second printing
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297815407
• ISBN 13: 9780297815402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Ward, Lalla
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The information system contained in DNA is so powerful and so elegant that it far outstrips anything that has been invented by way of computers. Dawkin's description of it aims to bring out the inspirational quality of our understanding of Darwinian life. The "river" of the title is the river of information carried through time in DNA, flowing and branching like a real river, and giving rise to new species as it does so. This book provides an explanation of the process of evolution, as illuminated by the theory of Darwinian natural selection.

About the Author

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995. His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time., They include THE SELFISH GENE (1976), RIVER OUT OF EDEN (1995), and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (1999).