'Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... His subject is nothing less than the meaning of life, and he attacks it with the evengelical fervour of a clergyman and the mind of a scientist'
The TimesThis universally acclaimed bestseller is a modern masterpiece of popular science.Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Award under the Heinemann Bequest.Reissued and rejacketed along with the bestselling
Climbing Mount Improbable and
Unweaving the Rainbow in Penguin's celebration of Dawkins' key works - popular science that has changed the way people see the world.Timed to coincide with extensive publicity surrounding the 30th anniversary of
The Selfish Gene and the 20th anniversary of
The Blind Watchmaker.With his powerful stance on science and religion (and an upcoming TV series on the same subject), Dawkins has never been a more controversial or important cultural figure.In 1995 Richard Dawkins became the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the bestselling author of THE SELFISH GENE, CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (Penguin, 1996) and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (Penguin, 1998).Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... His subject is nothing less than the meaning of life, and he attacks it with the evangelical fervour of a clergyman and the mind of a scientistBeautiful ... he seizes happy analogies, bright metaphors and shining images to light up his passion and our darknessGood writing, tight argument and unpulled punches ... a satisfying bookOne of the best science books - one of the best of any books - I have ever read
***30th Anniversary Edition***
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which 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?
