The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Dawkins, Richard

ISBN 10: 0393315703 ISBN 13: 9780393315707

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

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Book by Dawkins Richard

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"The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years."--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, "The Blind Watchmaker," framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte. Natural selection--the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process Darwin discovered--is the blind watchmaker in nature.

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Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393315703
• ISBN 13: 9780393315707
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400