1996, ISBN: 0393039307

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[EAN: 9780393039306], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, New York, N.Y.], EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, SCIENCE, BIOMORPHS, COMPUTER SIMULATIONS, DNA, EVOLUTION, GENES, M… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393039306], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, New York, N.Y.], EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, SCIENCE, BIOMORPHS, COMPUTER SIMULATIONS, DNA, EVOLUTION, GENES, MUTATIONS, NATURAL SELECTION, SYMMETRY, Jacket, xii, 340 pages. Signed by the author on the half title page. Includes Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Picture Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Includes chapters on Facing Mount Rushmore; Silken Fetters; The Message from the Mountain; Getting off the Ground; The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment; The Museum of All Shells; Kalaidoscopic Embryos; Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets; The Robot Repeater; and 'A Garden Inclosed'. Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born Clinton Richard Dawkins; 26 March 1941) is a British ethnologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He describes evolutionary processes as that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer. Dawkins has been awarded academic and writing awards, and he makes television, radio, and Internet appearances, predominantly discussing his books and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual. He has been termed a "genius of science popularization." Derived from a Kirkus review: Dawkins in this new work refutes creationists, who have long championed the argument that organs like the human eye could never have arisen "by chance" and that therefore a "Designer" must be at work. The point made early and oft repeated here is that creationists have got it all wrong: Mutations happen by chance. But natural selection is not random: If the mutation confers an advantage, its possessor has the potential of leaving more offspring, allowing the mutation to spread. The book's title refers to Dawkins's metaphor for evolution: The process is, he suggests, somewhat like the act of climbing a mountain. One doesn't proceed by launching an immediate assault in a straight line from the base to the peak, but by necessarily working through a series of smaller hills first, attaining the summit gradually. Dawkins uses the evolution of eyes, of spider webs, and of wings, among other features, to press his argument, providing wonderfully rich examples from extinct and contemporary species. There are, however, some assumptions that may be questioned by other equally ardent Darwinists: For example, is evolution necessarily "good"? Dawkins seems to think so, and, of course, from a selfish point of view it is, since it produced us. A second debatable assumption is that evolution necessarily proceeds toward complexity, when much evidence seems to suggest otherwise. Wonderful metaphorical trees examined in minute detail (including a tour de force on actual fig trees and their pollinating wasps), but Dawkins's evolutionary forest may be just a bit overpopulated with complex species. First American Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]., Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780393039306

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New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. First American Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Lalla Ward. xii, 340 pages. Signed by the autho… Mehr…

New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. First American Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Lalla Ward. xii, 340 pages. Signed by the author on the half title page. Includes Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Picture Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Includes chapters on Facing Mount Rushmore; Silken Fetters; The Message from the Mountain; Getting off the Ground; The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment; The Museum of All Shells; Kalaidoscopic Embryos; Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets; The Robot Repeater; and 'A Garden Inclosed'. Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born Clinton Richard Dawkins; 26 March 1941) is a British ethnologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He describes evolutionary processes as that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer. Dawkins has been awarded academic and writing awards, and he makes television, radio, and Internet appearances, predominantly discussing his books and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual. He has been termed a "genius of science popularization." Derived from a Kirkus review: Dawkins in this new work refutes creationists, who have long championed the argument that organs like the human eye could never have arisen "by chance" and that therefore a "Designer" must be at work. The point made early and oft repeated here is that creationists have got it all wrong: Mutations happen by chance. But natural selection is not random: If the mutation confers an advantage, its possessor has the potential of leaving more offspring, allowing the mutation to spread. The book's title refers to Dawkins's metaphor for evolution: The process is, he suggests, somewhat like the act of climbing a mountain. One doesn't proceed by launching an immediate assault in a straight line from the base to the peak, but by necessarily working through a series of smaller hills first, attaining the summit gradually. Dawkins uses the evolution of eyes, of spider webs, and of wings, among other features, to press his argument, providing wonderfully rich examples from extinct and contemporary species. There are, however, some assumptions that may be questioned by other equally ardent Darwinists: For example, is evolution necessarily "good"? Dawkins seems to think so, and, of course, from a selfish point of view it is, since it produced us. A second debatable assumption is that evolution necessarily proceeds toward complexity, when much evidence seems to suggest otherwise. Wonderful metaphorical trees examined in minute detail (including a tour de force on actual fig trees and their pollinating wasps), but Dawkins's evolutionary forest may be just a bit overpopulated with complex species., W. W. Norton & Company, 1996, 3<

1997, ISBN: 9780393039306

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996-09-01. Hardcover. Like New. 1st American edition, 1st printing, Norton hardcover w/ DJ, 1997. Book is Near Fine, w/ clean text, binding so tight it seems t… Mehr…

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996-09-01. Hardcover. Like New. 1st American edition, 1st printing, Norton hardcover w/ DJ, 1997. Book is Near Fine, w/ clean text, binding so tight it seems to have never been read. DJ is VG to VG+, w/ light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips)., W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996-09-01, 5<

ISBN: 9780393039306

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W, 2.5