Climbing Mount Improbable
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- Synopsis
- It's a treat when a scientist is able to convey the significance of a subject while at the same time commanding a reader's attention with intelligence, wit, and style. Dawkins (Chair, Public Understanding of Science, Oxford U.) manages to make the evolutionary design of animal and insect life both a source of serious biological inquiry and one of miraculous discovery. He portrays the silky worlds of spiders, how wings sprouted on previously flightless animals, the evolution of the human eye (no less than 40 leaps), and details how DNA paves the way for change across the whole spectrum of flying, swimming, and walking creatures. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
- Copyright:
- 1996
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 341 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393039306
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 07/18/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Medicine
- Submitted By:
- 170
- Proofread By:
- 170
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.