Dawkins, Richard, 1941-

Climbing mount improbable / Richard Dawkins ; original drawings by Lalla Ward. - New York : W.W. Norton, 1997, c1996. - xii, 340 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

"1st published as a Norton paperback 1997"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-331) and index.

Facing Mount Rushmore -- Silken fetters -- Message from the mountain -- Getting off the ground -- Forty-fold path to enlightenment -- Museum of all shells - Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Pollen grains and magic bullets -- Robot repeater -- 'A garden inclosed'.

0393316823 (pbk.) 9780393316827 (pbk.)


Natural selection.
Evolutionary genetics.
Morphogenesis.

QH 375 / .D376 1996