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Arguing that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of climbing a mountain to illustrate how natural perfection is due to the unending journey of DNA through time
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Books by Richard Dawkins:
- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008)
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- The Magic of Reality (2011)
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- The Selfish Gene: stability and the selfish machine; 6. Genesmanship; 7. Family planning; 8. Battle of the generations; 9. Battle of the sexes; 10. You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours; 11. Memes: the new replicators; 12. Nice guys finish first; 13. The long reach of the gene; Endnotes; Updated bibliography; Index and key to bibliography (1999)
- The Selfish Gene (2006)
- The Selfish Gene:30th Anniversary edition (2006)
- The God Delusion (2006)
- A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
- Climbing Mount Improbable (1997)
- The Extended Phenotype (1999)
- River Out Of Eden (1996)
