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020			_a9781416594789
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020			_z9781416597780 (ebook)
020			_z1416597786 (ebook)
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100	1		_aDawkins, Richard, _d1941- _910544
245	1	4	_aThe greatest show on Earth : _bthe evidence for evolution / _cRichard Dawkins.
250			_a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
260			_aNew York : _bFree Press, _c2009.
300			_aix, 470 p., 32 p. of plates : _bill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [439]-454) and index.
505	0	0	_gCh. 1. _tOnly a theory? -- _gCh. 2. _tDogs, cows and cabbages -- _gCh. 3. _tThe primrose path to macro-evolution -- _gCh. 4. _tSilence and slow time -- _gCh. 5. _tBefore our very eyes -- _gCh. 6. _tMissing link? What do you mean, 'missing'? -- _gCh. 7. _tMissing persons? Missing no longer -- _gCh. 8. _tYou did it yourself in nine months -- _gCh. 9. _tThe ark of the continents -- _gCh. 10. _tThe tree of cousinship -- _gCh. 11. _tHistory written all over us -- _gCh. 12. _tArms races and 'evolutionary theodicy' -- _gCh. 13. _tThere is grandeur in this view of life -- _gAppendix. _tThe history-deniers.
520	1		_a"In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would 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." "The Greatest Show on Earth is a counter-attack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Richard Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that " we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection.""--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology) _910545
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025330-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025330-d.html
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