Climbing Mount Improbable
Cover of the British first edition | |
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
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| Illustrator | Lalla Ward |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Evolutionary biology |
| Publisher | Norton |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 340 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-393-03930-7 |
| OCLC | 34633422 |
| 575.01/62 20 | |
| LC Class | QH375 .D376 1996 |
| Preceded by | River out of Eden |
| Followed by | Unweaving the Rainbow |
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book’s central metaphor describes complex adaptations, which evolve gradually through a series of intermediates. This happens through the cumulative, nonrandom process of natural selection.
The book grew out of Dawkins’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Growing Up in the Universe and shares its title with the third lecture. It was illustrated by Lalla Ward. Dawkins dedicated it to Robert Winston, “a good doctor and a good man.”