Climbing Mount Improbable

Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 Popular Science Book by Richard Dawkins . The book is about Probability and how it applies to the theory of Evolution , and specifically is designed to debunk claims by Creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like Natural Selection producing complex Organism s.

The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape, upon which evolution can only ascend in a gradual way, not being able to climb cliffs. In the book he gives various ideas about a seemingly complex mechanism coming about from many different gradual steps, that were previously unseen.

The book grew out of the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which Dawkins delivered in 1991 . It is illustrated by Dawkins' wife, Lalla Ward .

The book is divided into ten chapters as follows:
#Facing Mount Rushmore
#Silken Fetters
#The Message From the Mountain
#Getting Off the Ground
#The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment
#The Museum of All Shells
#Kaleidoscopic Embryos
#Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets
#The Robot Repeater
#'A Garden Inclosed'

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