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Climbing Mount Improbable

By Richard Dawkins

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| eBook | 9780141936321

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Book Description

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 Continue

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