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.
"Dawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make
evolutionary biology comprehensible and acceptable to a general
audience."
*John Maynard Smith*
"As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been
published since 1859."
*The Economist*
Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene ( LJ 12/1/76), persuasively argues the case for Darwinian evolution. He criticizes the prominent punctuationist school, and takes issue with the views of creationists and others who believe that life arose by design of a deity. Using the evolution of various animals as examples and drawing parallels from improvements in modern technology, Dawkins demonstrates the logic of the selection process and of an incremental evolution whose end products are the highly complex, functional organisms we know today. This provocative work is likely to generate further controversy in the scientific community. Recommended for informed laypersons, undergraduates, and scholars. Joseph Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
"Dawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make
evolutionary biology comprehensible and acceptable to a general
audience." -- John Maynard Smith
"As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been
published since 1859." -- The Economist
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