Climbing Mount Improbable
by Richard Dawkins
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393039307
- ISBN 13
- 9780393039306
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996. First. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy with black cloth spine on cream paper boards and gilt titles on spine No marks or damage at all Unclipped DJ has just slight edge wear, but it otherwise excellent Signed by Dawkins on title page
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Climbing Mount Improbable is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution It debunks claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection
The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape upon which evolution can ascend only gradually and cannot climb cliffs (that is known as an adaptive landscape) Dawkins gives ideas about a seemingly complex mechanism coming about from many gradual steps that were previously unseen 340 pp.
"Gift Quality"
Climbing Mount Improbable is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution It debunks claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection
The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape upon which evolution can ascend only gradually and cannot climb cliffs (that is known as an adaptive landscape) Dawkins gives ideas about a seemingly complex mechanism coming about from many gradual steps that were previously unseen 340 pp.
Synopsis
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution, and specifically is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection producing complex organisms.
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- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
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- AA1774
- Title
- Climbing Mount Improbable
- Author
- Richard Dawkins
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393039307
- ISBN 13
- 9780393039306
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
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About Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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