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The blind watchmaker / Richard Dawkins.

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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
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