by Richard Dawkins · W. W. Norton & Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393315707
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In 'The Blind Watchmaker', Richard Dawkins presents an accessible and rigorous defense of Darwinism, exploring how evolution, through natural selection, can create complexity without the need for a designer. With clear examples and compelling arguments, Dawkins challenges the notion that life is too intricate to have arisen by chance, offering a fascinating perspective on evolutionary biology and the nature of existence. This edition includes a new introduction by the author, maintaining the relevance of the work two decades after its original publication.
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."
