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Author Dawkins, Richard, 1941- author.

Title The blind watchmaker : why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design / Richard Dawkins ; with a new introduction.

Publication Info. New York : Norton, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Baron  576.8 D322b 2006    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition New edition.
Description xxi, 468 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Reissued in new edition in 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Explaining the very improbable -- Good design -- Accumulating small change -- Making tracks through animal space -- The power and the archives -- Origins and miracles -- Constructive evolution -- Explosions and spirals -- Puncturing punctuationism -- The one true tree of life -- Doomed rivals.
Summary Clarifies the seemingly implausible aspects of Darwin's theory, drawing on the famous watch comparison argued by William Paley, the eighteenth-century theologian.
Subject Evolution (Biology)
Natural selection.
Evolution (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00917302
Natural selection. (OCoLC)fst01034520
ISBN 0393315703 (paperback)
9780393315707 (paperback)

 
    
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