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Climbing Mount Improbable

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141026176

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 271g

  • RRP: £10.99

Climbing Mount Improbable

***20th Anniversary Edition - With a New Introduction***

Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of Climbing Mount Improbable features a unique shell. No two covers are exactly alike.

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 adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins' eloquent descriptions of astonishing adaptations in the living world.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141026176

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 271g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • A beautiful, barnstorming thunderclap of a book

    Michael White, Mail on Sunday

  • Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements ... a perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking

    Observer

  • One of the most gifted storytellers of our generation ... he writes like an angel

    Scotland on Sunday

  • A cracking good book

    John Gribbin

  • Dazzling

    David Attenborough

  • A cracking good book on evolution

    John Gribbin

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About the Author

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

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Richard Dawkins in conversation with Matt Ridley, 6 May 2021
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Richard Dawkins and Reverend Richard Coles debate 'Outgrowing God'

We asked Britain's most famous vicar to review Richard Dawkins' new book on atheism. Now the author has written a response. Together they make a fascinating debate about religion and the nature of belief.
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