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Richard Dawkins (page 2)


Cover art for CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1996

"Wonderful metaphorical trees examined in minute detail (including a tour de force on actual fig trees and their pollinating wasps), but Dawkins's evolutionary forest may be just a bit overpopulated with complex and improvable species."
Dawkins (River Out of Eden, 1995, etc.), who now holds a Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, is at pains in this new work to refute creationists, who have long championed the argument that organs like the human eye could never have arisen "by chance" and that therefore a "Designer" must be at work. Read full book review >
Cover art for RIVER OUT OF EDEN
NONFICTION
Released: March 29, 1995

"An excellent overview of the subject."
Dawkins (Zoology/Oxford Univ.) returns to the concerns of his The Blind Watchmaker (1986), presenting the case for Darwinian natural selection as the only reasonable explanation for biological diversity. Read full book review >