The Greatest Show on Earth

Richard Dawkins

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The Evidence for Evolution

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Verlag:: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK, 05/2010
Einband:: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
Sprache:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780552775243
Artikelnummer:: 2220622
Sonstiges:: 32-pages colour picture sections, plus 100 B&Wur picture sections, plus B&W line drawings line drawings, graphs and charts throughout text
Copyright-Jahr:: 2010
Gewicht:: 438 g
Maße:: 197 x 128 mm
Stärke:: 37 mm
Erscheinungstermin:: 15.5.2010
Hinweis: Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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Kurzbeschreibung

Das 21. Jahrhundert: Religiöse Gegner der Evolutionstheorie ziehen in den Kampf - Dawkins hält dagegen und präsentiert die unwiderlegbaren Beweise für Darwins Theorien.
Nach dem Riesenerfolg von 'The God Delusion' führt Dawkins die aufgeheizte Debatte zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion in eine weitere Runde. Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution

Rezension

"Richard Dawkins is so much more than just the world's most famous atheist, this smart and engaging "evidence for evolution" is required reading for those who want a grounding in the facts. It's as fascinating as it is challenging" Dr Alice Roberts, Biological anthropologist, author & broadcaster Independent

Klappentext

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 scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. In "The Greatest Show on Earth" 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. All of this, and much more, bears witness to the truth of evolution. "The Greatest Show on Earth" comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before, especially in America. In Britain and elsewhere in the world, teachers witness insidious attempts to undermine the status of science in their classrooms. Richard Dawkins provides unequivocal evidence that boldly and comprehensively rebuts such nonsense. At the same time he shares with us his palpable love of the natural world and the essential role that science plays in its interpretation. Written with elegance, wit and passion, it is hard-hitting, absorbing and totally convincing.

Biografie

Richard Dawkins, geb. 1941 in Nairobi, ist Evolutionsbiologe. Seit 1995 hat er den eigens für ihn eingerichteten Lehrstuhl für Public Understanding of Science an der Universität Oxford inne.