The greatest show on earth : the evidence for evolution / Richard Dawkins.
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TextPublication details: New York : Free Press, 2009.Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover edDescription: ix, 470 p : [32] p. of plates, ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781416594789 :
- 1416594787
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| 575 .1 092 SUZ Metamorphosis : stages in a life / | 575 Ingra The barmaid's brain and other strange tales from science | 576 .5 Isaac The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race / | 576 .8 DAW The greatest show on earth : the evidence for evolution / | 576 .8 Nye Undeniable : evolution and the science of creation / | 576 .82 092 DAR Darwin discovering the tree of life | 576 .84 Kolbe The sixth extinction : an unnatural history / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Only a theory? -- Dogs, cows, and cabbages -- The primrose path to macro-evolution -- Silence and slow time -- Before our very eyes -- Missing link? What do you mean, "missing"? -- Missing persons? Missing no longer -- You did it yourself in nine months -- The ark of the continents -- The tree of cousinship -- History written all over us -- Arms races and "evolutionary theodicy" -- There is grandeur in this view of life -- Appendix. The history-deniers.
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.".
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