Climbing Mount Improbable
by Dawkins, Richard
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393039307
- ISBN 13
- 9780393039306
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Hardcover with a dust-jacket. While an enzyme molecule or an eye might seem supremely improbable in their complexity, they are not accidental, nor need we assume that they are the designed handiwork of a Creator, asserts Oxford biologist Dawkins. This foremost neo-Darwinian exponent explains the dazzling array of living things as the result of natural selection. Dawkins explores how ordered complexity arose by discussing spiders' web-building techniques, the gradual evolution of elephant trunks and of wings (birds, he concludes, evolved from two-legged dinosaurs, not from tree gliders) and the symbiotic relationship between the 900 species of figs and their sole genetic companions, the miniature wasps that pollinate specific fig species. Using "computer biomorphs" (simulated creatures "bred" from a common ancestor), Dawkins demonstrates how varieties of the same plant or animal species can vary in shape because of differences in just a few genes.
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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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- Bookseller
- Breck Bartholomew Natural History Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8919
- Title
- Climbing Mount Improbable
- Author
- Dawkins, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393039307
- ISBN 13
- 9780393039306
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- xii, 340 p.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Evolution;
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