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Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins

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Arguing that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of climbing a mountain to illustrate how natural perfection is due to the unending journey of DNA through time.

First published 1996358 pages
574
Category
Science
Priority
Recommended
Author works
3
Editions known
15
Classification
Dewey (DDC)
574575.0162
Library of Congress (LCC)
QH0361QH0375.D376 1996QH0375QH0375.D38 2006
Subjects
Adaptation (biology)Biological EvolutionBiologieBiologyBusinessEvolutionEvolution (Biology)Evolutionary geneticsEvolutionsbiologieEwolucjaGenetic SelectionGenetics
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ISBN 0393316823English
DATE DUE
First published1996
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