About the book
Richard Dawkins's popular science book argues that natural selection, a cumulative and nonrandom process, accounts for the complexity of living things. The title answers William Paley, who compared organisms to a watch that implied a watchmaker; Dawkins calls natural selection a blind watchmaker because it works with no plan or purpose. He uses bat echolocation and the many independent origins of the eye as examples, and he describes his weasel program and other computer simulations of selection. The book develops themes from his first book, The Selfish Gene, and answers its critics. Its honors include the Heinemann Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Current Interest category.
Charlie Munger called it and The Selfish Gene marvelous books whose coinages were entering the English language, and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker praised its clear account of natural selection and called it a model of elegant science writing.
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Charlie Munger (Vice Chairman/Berkshire Hathaway)
And I — if you take [evolutionary biologist Richard] Dawkins, "The Selfish Gene" and "The Blind Watchmaker", I mean, these are marvelous books. And there are words in those books that are entering the English language that are going to be in the next Oxford Dictionary. I mean, these are powerful books.
Steven Pinker (Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, author)
A lucid explanation of natural selection and a model of elegant science writing.
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