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  • Published: 26 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141026176
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

Climbing Mount Improbable




'Dazzling' David Attenborough

How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adapatation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins' eloquent descriptions of astonishing adaptations in the living world.

  • Published: 26 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141026176
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

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Praise for Climbing Mount Improbable

A beautiful, barnstorming thunderclap of a book

Michael White, Mail on Sunday

Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements ... a perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking

Observer

One of the most gifted storytellers of our generation ... he writes like an angel

Scotland on Sunday

A cracking good book

John Gribbin