Climbing Mount Improbable - by Richard Dawkins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of <em>The Selfish Gene</em> and <em>The Blind Watchmaker</em>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><br />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 illustrations 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.<br /><br /><em>Climbing Mount Improbable</em> is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements . . . a perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking.-- "Observer"<br><br>Dazzling, --David Attenborough<br>
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