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Item Details
Title:
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RIVER OUT OF EDEN
A DARWINIAN VIEW OF LIFE |
By: |
Richard Dawkins |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1857994051 |
ISBN 13: |
9781857994056 |
Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 1996 |
Series: |
Science Masters |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
The Number One SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author Richard Dawkins. |
Synopsis: |
The Number One SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe. |
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Line drawings 6 |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
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Non-returnable |
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