The blind watchmaker

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Title:

The blind watchmaker

Author:

Dawkins, Richard, 1941-

ISBN:

9780141026169

Personal Author:

Dawkins, Richard, 1941-

Publication Information:

London : Penguin Books, 2006.

Physical Description:

xxi, 340 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

General Note:

"Reissued with an Introduction 2006" -- t.p. verso.

Contents:

Introduction to the 2006 edition -- Preface -- 1. Explaining the very improbable -- 2. Good design -- 3. Accumulating small change -- 4. Making tracks through animal space -- 5. The power and the archives -- 6. Origins and miracles -- 7. Constructive evolution -- 8. Explosions and spirals -- 9. Puncturing punctuationism -- 10. The one true tree of life -- 11. Doomed rivals.

Subject Term:

Natural selection.

Evolution (Biology)

Life -- Origin.

Copies:

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025428893	576.82 D271B 2006	1	Searching... Unknown
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Summary

***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph. No two covers are exactly alike. Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?