Biology
Blind Watchmaker
Publisher: W. W. Norton, 1996, 400pp, 1st ed.
Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, persuasively argues the case for Darwinian evolution. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever.
Table of contents
| Introduction to the 1996 edition | ||
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Explaining the very improbable | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Good design | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | Accumulating small change | 43 |
| Ch. 4 | Making tracks through animal space | 77 |
| Ch. 5 | The power and the archives | 111 |
| Ch. 6 | Origins and miracles | 139 |
| Ch. 7 | Constructive evolution | 169 |
| Ch. 8 | Explosions and spirals | 195 |
| Ch. 9 | Puncturing punctuationism | 223 |
| Ch. 10 | The one true tree of life | 255 |
| Ch. 11 | Doomed rivals | 287 |
| Bibliography | 321 | |
| Index | 327 | |
| Appendix I | An Application for the Apple Macintosh Computer | 335 |
| Appendix II [1991] | Computer Programs and 'The Evolution of Evolvability' | 351 |