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_bD271b 1996
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100 1 _aDawkins, Richard,
_d1941-
245 1 4 _aThe blind watchmaker :
_bwhy evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design /
_cRichard Dawkins ; with a new introduction.
260 _aNew York :
_bNorton,
_c1996.
300 _axvii, 358 p. :
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.
505 _aIntroduction to the 1996 edition Preface Chapter 1 Explaining the very improbable Chapter 2 Good design Chapter 3 Accumulating small change Chapter 4 Making tracks through animal space Chapter 5 The power and the archives Chapter 6 Origins and miracles Chapter 7 Constructive evolution Chapter 8 Explosions and spirals Puncturing punctuationism Chapter 9 Chapter 10 The one true tree of life Chapter 11 Doomed rivals Bibliography Index Appendix I: An Application for the Apple Macintosh Comp Appendix II [1991]: Computer Programs and "The Evolution of Evolvability'
520 _aThe 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 Daviis brilliant discovery that put the lie to these arguments. Buy Richard Dawkins could have written this eloquent ripe the creationists. Natural selec tion-the unconscions, wc, blind, yet essentially nonran dom precess that Dovered-has no purpose in mind. If it can be gaia dsathi Se role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind waselanda Acclaimedhaps the most influential work on evolution written in this tury, The Blind Watchmaker offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientif c discoveries of all time.
650 0 _aEvolution (Biology)
650 4 _aEvolución (Biología)
_96140
650 0 _aSelección natural
_919489
650 0 _aNatural selection.
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