Climbing mount improbable

by Dawkins, Richard

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Title Statements

Full title :Climbing mount improbable / Richard Dawkins ; original drawings by Lalla Ward.

Summary

The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to perfection takes time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of extraordinary adaptations such as the teeming populations of figs, the intricate silken world of spiders, and the evolution of wings on the bodies of flightless animals. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Climbing Mount Improbable is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age. - Publisher

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1997, ©1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):W.W. Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1997, ©1996.

Notes

"1st published as a Norton paperback 1997"--Title page verso

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 340 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780393070521, 0393070522
oclc:ocn915592703
LC Classification:QH375
Dewey Decimal:501

Facing Mount Rushmore -- Silken fetters -- Message from the mountain -- Getting off the ground -- Forty-fold path to enlightenment -- Museum of all shells -- Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Pollen grains and magic bullets -- Robot repeater -- 'A garden inclosed'.

Subjects

Adaptation biologique Evolutionary genetics Evolutionsbiologie Génétique évolutive MORPHOGENÈSE (BIOLOGIE) Morphogenesis Natural selection Sélection naturelle Soziobiologie