Climbing mount improbable

Richard Dawkins0393039307, 9780393039306

Arguing fiercely that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of a climb up Mount Improbable to illustrate how natural perfection is due to the unending journey of DNA through time. Tour.

Amazon.com Review Few scientific theories have been as influential or controversial in the past few centuries as Darwin’s thoughts on natural selection; even now, laymen and scientists find fault with Darwin’s argument. Richard Dawkins, the chair of the communication of science at Oxford University, has delivered a well-researched book supporting and supplementing Darwin’s theories. Although not a work of Darwinian proportions, Climbing Mount Improbable is an advancement of those theories for scientists and general readers alike.