First published in 1996, Climbing Mount Improbable argues that complex biological features often assumed too intricate to have evolved — eyes, wings, spider webs — in fact arose through countless small, cumulative steps, each offering its own advantage. Dawkins uses the image of a sheer cliff versus a gentle slope to the same summit: evolution always takes the gradual path, not the impossible leap. Case studies include a computer simulation of eye evolution and the intertwined life cycles of figs and the wasps that pollinate them.
This Folio Society edition is illustrated with colour photographs and black-and-white drawings by Lalla Ward, bound in full black buckram with a sea lily cover design by Neil Gower and gold endleaves, and housed in a slipcase.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS
- Published 2008 by The Folio Society
- Hardcover bound in full black buckram with a sea lily cover design by Neil Gower, gold endleaves, housed in a slipcase
- Illustrated with colour photographs and black-and-white drawings by Lalla Ward
- xvi + 313 pages, indexed
CONDITION
Very good condition. Small dent in edge of slipcase. Grey marks on interior of slipcase from rubbing against the cover. See photos.
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