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by Richard Dawkins

Patiently and lucidly, this Los Angeles Times Book Award and Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize winner identifies the aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe and removes the barriers to credibility one by one. "As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859".--The Economist.


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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.

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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.

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  • Title The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
  • Author Richard Dawkins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, U.S.A.
  • Date 2015-09-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780393351491 / 0393351491
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolution (Biology), Natural selection
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.82
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