Blind Watchmaker Why the Evidence

Dawkins, Richard

ISBN 10: 0393304485 / ISBN 13: 9780393304480

Edité par Norton*(ww Norton Co, 1988

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trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Liz Pyle (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. W. W. Norton, 1987. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition, eighth printing. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. . Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi+332+15 pages. 22 illustrations. The seminal text for understanding evolution. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a blind one: working without foresight or purpose. In an eloquent, uniquely persuasive account of the theory of natural selection, Dawkins illustrates how simple organisms slowly change over time to create a world of enormous complexity, diversity, and beauty. Deep enough to be valuable to biologists, yet simple and well-written so as to appeal to a mass audience. N° de réf. du vendeur 391

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Titre : Blind Watchmaker Why the Evidence

Éditeur : Norton*(ww Norton Co

Date d'édition : 1988

Reliure : Soft cover

Etat : Near Fine

Edition : Edition originale

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Book by Dawkins Richard

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From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paley's argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Dawkins, and in this brilliant and controversial book, the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 'I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence' To Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker is nature itself, gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA. 'This might just be the most important evolution book since Darwin'
  John Gribbin 'Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life'
  The Times 'Enchantingly witty and persusive ... pleasurably intelligible to the scientifically illiterate'
  Observer Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books: The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Unweaving the Rainbow, and an impassioned defence of atheism, The God Delusion.