Blind Watchmaker, The

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Blind Watchmaker, The - Dawkins, Richard

Offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. This book demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?

Genre : Popular science
First published : 06/04/2006

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Paperback (B fo rmat)
Editor / Edition : Penguin Books Ltd
Edition : New Ed
Released : 29/11/1990
Pages / length : 368 pages
Page size : 198 x 129
Weight : 265 g
ISBN : 9780140144819
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Paperback
Editor / Edition : Penguin Books Ltd
Edition : New title
Released : 06/04/2006
Pages / length : 368 pages
ISBN : 9780141026169
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Paperback
Subtitle : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
Editor / Edition : W W Norton&Co Ltd
Edition : New title
Released : 13/06/2006
Pages / length : 400 pages
Page size : 211 x 183
Weight : 382 g
ISBN : 9780393315707
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