An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything.
Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works.
Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena: How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman?
Starting with the magical, mythical explanations for the wonders of nature, Dawkins reveals the exhilarating scientific truths behind these occurrences. This is a page-turning detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well.
Product details
ASIN : 1451675046
Publisher : Free Press; Illustrated edition (Sept. 11 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781451675047
ISBN-13 : 978-1451675047
Item weight : 249 g
Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.78 x 21.27 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #59,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#6 in Creationism
#132 in Evolution in Professional Science
#136 in Folklore & Mythology (Books)
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