Climbing Mount Improbable (SIGNED COPY)

DAWKINS, Richard (illustrated by Lalla Ward)

ISBN 10: 0670850187 / ISBN 13: 9780670850181

Published by Viking, London, 1996

About this Item

1st printing. Large 8vo in black faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 308pp, plates, illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc. This copy signed by the author on the title-page (no other marks or inscriptions) . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy (hint of tanning to leaves) in a very faintly edge-creased but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket (looks new in its removable transparent protector) ] . . __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climbing Mount Improbable (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Viking, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670850187
• ISBN 13: 9780670850181
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Climbing Mount Improbable

Review

How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random variants"--a course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's great hero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with case studies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye and the lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps, Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinian ideas.