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The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Richard Dawkins
Published
2009
by
Free Press
in
New York
.
Written in English.
About the Book
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."
Table of 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. |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-454) and index.
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
576.8 |
Library of Congress |
QH366.2 .D374 2009 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
ix, 470 p., 32 p. of plates : |
Number of pages |
470 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL24391629M |
Internet Archive |
greatestshowonea00dawk |
ISBN 10 |
1416594787, 1416597786 |
ISBN 13 |
9781416594789, 9781416597780 |
LC Control Number |
2009025330 |
OCLC/WorldCat |
311765210 |
History Created October 24, 2010 · 3 revisions
| August 19, 2012 | Edited by Felix Gruber | Fix capitalization. |
| January 21, 2011 | Edited by ImportBot | add subjects from new record |
| October 24, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | initial import |