Climbing Mount Improbable
Add to wishlist

Climbing Mount Improbable

by

SKU: 9780141026176 Categories: , , Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

12.99 JOD

Jordan: Deliverable within 48 hours
International: Deliverable within 7 Days

Description

***20th Anniversary Edition – With a New Introduction***Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of Climbing Mount Improbable features a unique shell. No two covers are exactly alike.How could such an intricate object as the human eye – so complex and so precise – have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of ‘Mount Improbable’ represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the seemingly ‘designed’ complexity of living things. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins’ eloquent descriptions of astonishing adaptations in the living world.

Additional information

Weight 0.282 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

368
Publisher

Year Published

2006-4-6
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141026170
About The Author

In 1995 Richard Dawkins became the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the bestselling author of THE SELFISH GENE, THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (Penguin, 1988) and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (Penguin, 1998).

A beautiful, barnstorming thunderclap of a book
Other text

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

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.

Related products