The blind watchmaker : why evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design / Richard Dawkins ; with a new introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.

Introduction to the 1996 edition
Preface
Chapter 1 Explaining the very improbable
Chapter 2 Good design
Chapter 3 Accumulating small change
Chapter 4 Making tracks through animal space
Chapter 5 The power and the archives
Chapter 6 Origins and miracles
Chapter 7 Constructive evolution
Chapter 8 Explosions and spirals
Puncturing punctuationism
Chapter 9
Chapter 10 The one true tree of life
Chapter 11 Doomed rivals
Bibliography
Index
Appendix I: An Application for the Apple Macintosh Comp
Appendix II [1991]: Computer Programs and
"The Evolution of Evolvability'

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