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- catalog abstract ""The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. It was Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery that put the lie to these arguments. But only Richard Dawkins could have written this eloquent riposte to the creationists. Natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process that Darwin discovered - has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker." "Acclaimed as perhaps the most influential work on evolution written in this century, The Blind Watchmaker offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11020406.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. It was Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery that put the lie to these arguments. But only Richard Dawkins could have written this eloquent riposte to the creationists. Natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process that Darwin discovered - has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker." "Acclaimed as perhaps the most influential work on evolution written in this century, The Blind Watchmaker offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Explaining the very improbable -- Ch. 2. Good design -- Ch. 3. Accumulating small change -- Ch. 4. Making tracks through animal space -- Ch. 5. The power and the archives -- Ch. 6. Origins and miracles -- Ch. 7. Constructive evolution -- Ch. 8. Explosions and spirals -- Ch. 9. Puncturing punctuationism -- Ch. 10. The one true tree of life -- Ch. 11. Doomed rivals -- Appendix I. An Application for the Apple Macintosh Computer -- Appendix II [1991]. Computer Programs and 'The Evolution of Evolvability'.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 358 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393315703".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog subject "576.8/2 21".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology)".
- catalog subject "Natural selection.".
- catalog subject "QH366.2 .D37 1996".
- catalog subject "Selection, Genetic.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Explaining the very improbable -- Ch. 2. Good design -- Ch. 3. Accumulating small change -- Ch. 4. Making tracks through animal space -- Ch. 5. The power and the archives -- Ch. 6. Origins and miracles -- Ch. 7. Constructive evolution -- Ch. 8. Explosions and spirals -- Ch. 9. Puncturing punctuationism -- Ch. 10. The one true tree of life -- Ch. 11. Doomed rivals -- Appendix I. An Application for the Apple Macintosh Computer -- Appendix II [1991]. Computer Programs and 'The Evolution of Evolvability'.".
- catalog title "The blind watchmaker : why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design / Richard Dawkins ; with a new introduction.".
- catalog type "text".