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    <namePart>Dawkins, Clinton Richard</namePart>
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    <publisher>Free Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st Free Press hardcover ed.</edition>
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  <abstract>Sifting through rich layers of scientific evidence, Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument."</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Preface		vii	
Only a theory?
1	(18)
Dogs, cows and cabbages
19	(24)
The primrose path to macro-evolution
43	(40)
Silence and slow time
83	(26)
Before our very eyes
109	(34)
Missing link? What do you mean, `missing'?
143	(38)
Missing persons? Missing no longer
181	(28)
You did it yourself in nine months
209	(42)
The ark of the continents
251	(34)
The tree of cousinship
285	(52)
History written all over us
337	(36)
Arms races and `evolutionary theodicy'
373	(24)
There is grandeur in this view of life
397	(30)
Appendix The history-deniers		427	(12)
Notes		439	(8)
Bibliography and Further Reading		447	(8)
Picture Acknowledgements		455	(4)
Index		459	</tableOfContents>
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  <subject>
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