Climbing Mount Improbable (SIGNED COPY)

DAWKINS, Richard (illustrated by Lalla Ward)

ISBN 10: 0670850187 / ISBN 13: 9780670850181

Published by Viking, London, 1996

About this Item

1st printing. Large 8vo in black faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 308pp, plates, illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc. This copy signed by the author on the title-page (no other marks or inscriptions) . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy (hint of tanning to leaves) in a very faintly edge-creased but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket (looks new in its removable transparent protector) ] . . __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climbing Mount Improbable (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Viking, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670850187
• ISBN 13: 9780670850181
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

This work is based on the author's 1992 Royal Institution Christmas lectures, "An Introduction to Evolutionary Biology", which is aimed both at teenagers and adults.

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.