by Richard Dawkins · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140179187
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«Climbing Mount Improbable» is Richard Dawkins's popular science essay, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Richard Dawkins explains evolution as a gradual ascent towards adaptive peaks using Mount Improbable: natural selection accumulates small steps until complex forms are achieved without need for design. The work also argues that DNA transcends the organism; bodies are temporary vehicles for genes.
1997 edition in the Penguin Science collection, with illustrations by Lalla Ward. The book was nominated for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
Suitable for the general public interested in evolutionary biology and science communication.
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995, he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."
