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The greatest show on earth : the evidence for evolution / Richard Dawkins.
Van Pelt Library QH366.2 .D374 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawkins, Richard, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 472 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, : Free Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- 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."
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781416594796
- 1416594795
- 9781439191996
- 1439191999
- OCLC:
- 685121521
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