Climbing Mount Improbable (inscribed by Dawkins)

Richard Dawkins

ISBN 10: 0393039307 / ISBN 13: 9780393039306

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

About this Item

First American edition (stated). Inscribed "To Alan/ Richard Dawkins" on the half-title page. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 340 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Internationally famed evolutionary biologist, zoologist and author Richard Dawkins offers this book in which "Mount Probable" represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" perfection of living things. He points out that from the combinationof strength and sensitivity in an elephant's trunk to the life-saving camouflage of an ant-mimicking beetle, the living worls is populated by creatures that seem miraculously designed for the lives they lead. But these complex and brilliantly efective features cannot have come about by chance.

Seller Inventory # E30306

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climbing Mount Improbable (inscribed by Dawkins)
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393039307
• ISBN 13: 9780393039306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.