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Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins

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ISBN13: 9780393039306
ISBN10: 0393039307
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It's a treat when a scientist is able to convey the significance of a subject while at the same time commanding a reader's attention with intelligence, wit, and style. Dawkins (Chair, Public Understanding of Science, Oxford U.) manages to make the evolutionary design of animal and insect life both a source of serious biological inquiry and one of miraculous discovery. He portrays the silky worlds of spiders, how wings sprouted on previously flightless animals, the evolution of the human eye (no less than 40 leaps), and details how DNA paves the way for change across the whole spectrum of flying, swimming, and walking creatures. These discussions and others are well illustrated by line drawings and photographs.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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acsecnarf, August 22, 2007 (view all comments by acsecnarf)
interesting as well as compriensive, richard dawkins turns detailed facts into a story worth reading.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393039306
Author:
Dawkins, Richard
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Location:
New York
Subject:
Evolution
Subject:
Natural selection
Subject:
Adaptation (biology)
Subject:
Evolutionary genetics
Subject:
Anatomy, comparative
Subject:
Morphogenesis
Copyright:
1996
Edition Number:
1st American ed.
Series Volume:
v. 1300
Publication Date:
1996
Binding:
Trade Cloth
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
xii, 340 p.
Dimensions:
9.57x6.45x1.25 in. 1.59 lbs.
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