Climbing Mount Improbable
by Richard Dawkins
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Dj
- ISBN 10
- 0393316823
- ISBN 13
- 9780393316827
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About This Item
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. Fifth. Paperback. Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 340, a paperback edition, b/w sketch illustrations and photographs, ""How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change…
Synopsis
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution, and specifically is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection producing complex organisms.
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- Bookseller
- The Edmonton Book Store (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 305876
- Title
- Climbing Mount Improbable
- Author
- Richard Dawkins
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifth
- ISBN 10
- 0393316823
- ISBN 13
- 9780393316827
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
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