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, THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (Penguin, 1988) and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (Penguin, 1998).
A beautiful, barnstorming thunderclap of a book
*Mail on Sunday*
Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its
peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements ... a
perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking
*Observer*
One of the most gifted storytellers of our generation ... he writes
like an angel
*Scotland on Sunday*
A cracking good book
*John Gribbin*
Dawkins (The Blind Watchmaker, LJ 2/1/87 and River Out of Eden, LJ 3/15/95) holds the chair in "Public Understanding of Science" at Oxford University and, if this book is any measure, does so with distinction. This readable, elegantly written, fascinating assessment of why and how living things evolve and how‘improbable as it may seem‘seemingly random systems abet evolution is the sort of book Stephen Jay Gould would write if he were at Oxford. (Dawkins is Masterpiece Theatre to Gould's National Geographic.) This is not easy science; Dawkins discusses genetics, natural selection, and embryology for hundreds of species spanning millions of years, but he does so in a way that both delights and instructs. This is a book for Gould lovers, certainly, but life scientists of all sorts would appreciate it, as would teachers in the life sciences: it's an invigorating trip through the history of life led by one of Darwin's most articulate disciples.‘Mark L. Shelton, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Ctr., Worcester
A beautiful, barnstorming thunderclap of a book -- Michael White *
Mail on Sunday *
Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its
peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements ... a
perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking *
Observer *
One of the most gifted storytellers of our generation ... he writes
like an angel * Scotland on Sunday *
A cracking good book -- John Gribbin
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