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

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

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This title identifies those aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe.
 

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?The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale?

Date of Review:  Feb 18, 2004
The Bottom Line: Essential reading for a laymans understanding of evolution!
Review: This is Dawkins second best-selling book on evolution, following his first, The Selfish Gene. The Blind Watchmaker was first published in 1986, and this review is based on a third edition published in 1997. There were no revisions from the...
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The Blind Scientist Misses the Point

Date of Review:  Jan 10, 2006
The Bottom Line: The book does not deliver on its promise to reveal the solution to the mystery of life
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This book is written in the conviction that our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but it is mystery no longer because it is solved. With this stunning sentence begins one of the bestsellers of the...
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The Undesigned Tree of Life

Date of Review:  Jul 11, 2001
The Bottom Line: This describes in no uncertain terms why evolution is the best explanation yet for the variety and complexities of living organisms.
Review: Dawkins draws his title from the writings of the 18th century philosopher William Paley, who made the argument that just as one can see conscious design in the specialization and complexity of a pocket watch--a complicated bit of machinery for his...
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Authors Richard Dawkins
Nonfiction Category Science
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Awards 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Award

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  Los Angeles Times: "...beautifully and superbly written....It is one of the best science books I have ever read."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (August 29, 1996)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9780393315707
 

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