Record Number |
793504 |
ISBN |
9780141026169 (paperback) |
0141026162 (paperback) |
Author |
Dawkins, Richard, 1941- author. |
Title |
The blind watchmaker / Richard Dawkins. |
Edition |
[New edition]. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Penguin, c2006. |
Pagination etc. |
xxi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
Contents note |
Previous edition: 1991. |
"Reissued with an introduction 2006"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
Contents note |
Introduction to the 2006 edition -- Preface -- 1. Explaining the very improbable -- 2. Good design -- 3. Accumulatin small change -- 4. Making tracks through animal space -- 5. The power and the archives -- 6. Origins and miracles -- 7. Constructive evolution -- 8. Explosions and spirals -- 9. Puncturing punctuationism -- 10. The one true tree of life -- 11. Doomed rivals. |
Summary Note |
A brilliant and controversial book, which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non- random process discovered by Darwin, is the only answer to the question of all: why do we exist? |
Subject - Name |
Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 |
Subject |
Natural selection |
Evolution (Biology) |
Biodiversity |
Shelf Location |
576.82 DAWK |