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Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2025
  • First published 1996

evolutionary biology

Dawkins explains how complex structures like eyes, wings and spider webs can arise through small steps of natural selection.   He uses the image of a mountain with a cliff on one side and a gentle slope on the other.