Climbing Mount Improbable.

DAWKINS, Richard. Illustrations by Lalla Ward.

ISBN 10: 0393039307 / ISBN 13: 9780393039306

Published by W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1996

About this Item

First U.S. edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. xii, 340 pages. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 16350-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climbing Mount Improbable.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393039307
• ISBN 13: 9780393039306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Signed Books

About this title

Synopsis

Arguing fiercely that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of a climb up Mount Improbable to illustrate how natural perfection is due to the unending journey of DNA through time. Tour.

About the Author

Richard Dawkins in 1955 became the first holder of the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.