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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

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Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.

The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a blind one—working without foresight or purpose.

In an eloquent, uniquely persuasive account of the theory of natural selection, Dawkins illustrates how simple organisms slowly change over time to create a world of enormous complexity, diversity, and beauty.

ISBN-13: 9780393351491

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Norton - W. W. & Company - Inc.

Publication Date: 09-28-2015

Pages: 496

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)

Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and is the author of The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, and many other books.

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Dawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make evolutionary biology comprehensible and acceptable to a general audience.