Blind Watchmaker

466 pages

English language

Published Feb. 22, 2006

ISBN:
978-0-14-102616-9
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. He also presents arguments to refute certain criticisms made on his first book, The Selfish Gene. (Both books espouse the gene-centric view of evolution.) An unabridged audiobook edition was released in 2011, narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward.

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Dawkins accomplishes all of his goals, I think, in this one, but it's a bit of a mind-wanderer in several of the chapters. Some of the mind's departures from the text were positive (Dawkins presents 'IDEAS' that have to be chased down) and some were negative (while Dawkins belabors this point, let's think about what we'll have for dinner).

This is my first Dawkins book. It's satisfying. He's interesting. And he answered some questions that I didn't know I should have had. It's funny how much of evolutionary theory I had just taken on faith.

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