The Greatest Show on Earth
Subtitle: the evidence for evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover edition
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781416594789; 9781416597780
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-454) and index.
Table of contents: title: Only a theory?; title: Dogs, cows, and cabbages; title: The primrose path to macro-evolution; title: Silence and slow time; title: Before our very eyes; title: Missing link? What do you mean, 'missing'?; title: Missing persons? Missing no longer; title: You did it yourself in nine months; title: The ark of the continents; title: The tree of cousinship; title: History written all over us; title: Arms races and 'evolutionary theodicy'; title: There is grandeur in this view of life; title: Appendix. The history-deniers.