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In Climbing Mount Improbable" Richard Dawkins author of " The God Delusion" builds a powerful & carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures such as the human eye the spiders web or the wings of birds develop seemingly by chance? Regarding evolutions most complex achievements as peaks on a metaphorical mountain " Climbing Mount Improbable" reveals the ways in which the theory of natural selection can precisely explain the beautiful bizarre & seemingly designed complexity of living things. & through it all runs the thread of DNA the molecule of life responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Accompanied by evocative illustrations Dawkins eloquent descriptions of the living worlds astonishing adaptations throw back the curtain on the mysteries of Mount Improbable. "A beautiful barnstorming thunderclap of a book". (Michael White " Mail on Sunday"). " Exhilarating
- a perfect elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking about natural selection & evolution". (" Observer"). " Dawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make evolutionary biology comprehensible & acceptable". (" Sunday Times"). " Dazzling". (David Attenborough). "A cracking good book on evolution". (John Gribbin). Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society & the Royal Society of Literature & Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with " The Selfish Gene" which he followed with a string of bestselling books: " The Extended Phenotype" " The Blind Watchmaker" " River Out of Eden" " Unweaving the Rainbow" & an impassioned defence of atheism " The God Delusion"."

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