The Greatest Show on Earth; The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins

• ISBN13: 9781416594789
• ISBN10: 1416594787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-22
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book,The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology. He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and most recently, The God Delusion. The Greatest Show on Earth will be published by Ballantine, a part of Transworld in the UK on September 12th, 2009.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Only a theory?	p. 1
Dogs, cows and cabbages	p. 19
The primrose path to macro-evolution	p. 43
Silence and slow time	p. 83
Before our very eyes	p. 109
Missing link? What do you mean, 'missing'?	p. 143
Missing persons? Missing no longer	p. 181
You did it yourself in nine months	p. 209
The ark of the continents	p. 251
The tree of cousinship	p. 285
History written all over us	p. 337
Arms races and 'Evolutionary theodicy'	p. 373
There is grandeur in this view of life	p. 397
Appendix The history-deniers	p. 427
Notes	p. 439
Bibliography and further Reading	p. 447
Picture Acknowledgements	p. 455
Index	p. 459
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