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Climbing Mount Improbable

Door Richard Dawkins

Categorie
Algemeen Natuur
Boeknummer
#243060
Titel
Climbing Mount Improbable
Auteur
Dawkins, Richard
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York/London, W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave
1996
ISBN10
0393316823
ISBN13
9780393316827
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject-in writing that the New York Times called a masterpiece -Richard Dawkins builds a carefully reasoned and lovingly illustrated argument for evolutionary adaptation as the mechanism for life on earth. The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly designed complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to perfection takes time. Evocative ill
... (Lees verder)ustrations accompany Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of extraordinary adaptations such as the teeming populations of figs, the intricate silken world of spiders, and the evolution of wings on the bodies of flightless animals. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Climbing Mount Improbable is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age.
Pagina's
340
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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