ISBN: 059306173X
Godina izdanja: 2009
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Bantam, 2009
470 str.
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stanje: vrlo dobro

Charles Darwin`s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as a scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity ...

Sifting through rich layers of scientific evidence, Dawkins` `The Greatest Show on Earth` is a stunning counterattack on advocates of `Intelligent Design,` explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist `argument.`

Charles Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity.

Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of `Intelligent Design` and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection. Like a detective arriving on the scene of a crime, he sifts through fascinating layers of scientific facts and disciplines to build a cast-iron case: from the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects; the `time clocks` of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology and genetics.

Contents:
Only a theory?
Dogs, cows, and cabbages
The primrose path to macro-evolution
Silence and slow time
Before our very eyes
Missing link? What do you mean, `missing`?
Missing persons? Missing no longer
You did it yourself in nine months
The ark of the continents
The tree of cousinship
History written all over us
Arms races and `evolutionary theodicy`
There is grandeur in this view of life
Appendix. The history-deniers


Nonfiction, 059306173X