The Blind Watchmaker
Published on 6. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-14-102616-9 (ISBN)
Description
***30th Anniversary Edition***
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?
Reviews / Votes
Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... His subject is nothing less than the meaning of life, and he attacks it with the evangelical fervour of a clergyman and the mind of a scientist * The Times * Beautiful ... he seizes happy analogies, bright metaphors and shining images to light up his passion and our darkness * Guardian * Good writing, tight argument and unpulled punches ... a satisfying book * Economist * One of the best science books - one of the best of any books - I have ever read * Los Angeles Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
338 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-102616-9 (9780141026169)
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Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker
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11/2013
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Penguin Books Ltd
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Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker
Book
11/1990
Penguin Books Ltd
€31.13
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Person
In 1995 Richard Dawkins became the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the bestselling author of THE SELFISH GENE, CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (Penguin, 1996) and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (Penguin, 1998).