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- catalog abstract "How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random variants"--A course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's great hero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with case studies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye and the lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps, Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinian ideas.".
- catalog contributor b9422651.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Facing Mount Rushmore -- Silken fetters -- Message from the mountain -- Getting off the ground -- Forty-fold path to enlightenment -- Museum of all shells -- Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Pollen grains and magic bullets -- Robot repeater -- 'A garden inclosed'.".
- catalog description "How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random variants"--A course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's great hero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with case studies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye and the lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps, Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinian ideas.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 340 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393039307 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog subject "575.01/62 20".
- catalog subject "Evolutionary genetics.".
- catalog subject "Morphogenesis.".
- catalog subject "Natural selection.".
- catalog subject "QH375 .D376 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Facing Mount Rushmore -- Silken fetters -- Message from the mountain -- Getting off the ground -- Forty-fold path to enlightenment -- Museum of all shells -- Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Pollen grains and magic bullets -- Robot repeater -- 'A garden inclosed'.".
- catalog title "Climbing mount improbable / Richard Dawkins ; original drawings by Lalla Ward.".
- catalog type "text".