Climbing Mount Improbable.
by Dawkins, Richard
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Natural history Darwin & evolution . 1st. Ed. 1st. Imp. Pub. Viking. 1996. pp.xi, 308 with b/w. plates and text illus. 8vo. Spotting to top edge o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw. David Boddingtons invitation to the inaugural Oundle School Lecture to be given by Prof. Dawkins (2002) pasted in to ffep. A Sunday Telegraph interview with Prof. Dawkins (1999), loosely inserted.
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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- Bookseller
- C.Arden Bookseller (GB)
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- 65755
- Title
- Climbing Mount Improbable.
- Author
- Dawkins, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st. Ed. 1st. Imp. Pub. Viking. 1996
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Natural history Darwin & evolution
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
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- Common abbreviation for 'published'
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- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...