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In Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth.
What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures such as the human eye, the spider's web or the wings of birds develop, seemingly by chance? Regarding evolution's most comp...more

Published April 6th 2006 by Penguin (first published 1996)

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Olli-Pekka PaljakkaWell, Dawkin makes strong arguments and is a logical writer to follow. He does have strong opinions which he at times pushes on the readers in a…moreWell, Dawkin makes strong arguments and is a logical writer to follow. He does have strong opinions which he at times pushes on the readers in a rather overly direct fashion though.
Aside from the author, love or hate him, Climbing Mount Improbable makes it very clear that gradual changes in living organisms over a long period of time can lead to very complex organs. This book is a direct counterargument to the idea that life is so complicated and 'perfect' that it must have an intelligent designer behind it. Dawkins shows how life is not perfect but has evolved to some very specific functions, and how that has happened over time. To put it plainly, he argues strongly against creationism. (less)

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Oct 16, 2009Greg rated it really liked it

Part of me feels really dumb reading this, because all I can do is take him at his word and go 'uh-huh, that must be how it's done'. Like what is this other guy who gave the book one star talking about with chaos theory and some kind of math that has proven that eyes could evolve or devolve spontaneously? What does that mean? How am I to judge what is right or not. Once again I have the gripe with Dawkins about not citing much, this book lacks any kind of citations. He tells you where to go to r...more

Jul 07, 2018Umut Ayhan rated it liked it · review of another edition

A very difficult read. Including very fragmented chapters, though interesting.

Aug 06, 2008Eric rated it really liked it

I highly recommend you read any Dawkins book on evolution, if you want the best coherent explanation of the processes of natural selection.
According to Wikipedia, Dawkins is 'Darwin's Rottweiler'.
In this book, Dawkins attempts to explain how it is possible that evolution of such amazing instruments as eyes can happen through nothing more than natural selection. He explains in part through the use of his and others' computer simulations. I really *get* that natural selection with random mutation...more

Dec 31, 2009Amy rated it liked it

After a couple weeks of slowly reading through this one, I gave up and skimmed the last 150 or so pages. This book was not as engaging as Blind Watchmaker or God Delusion, mostly because it's more of a biology text than a political treatise about evolution. I very much enjoyed the 'what it all means' sections of the book, but those appear too infrequently between the 'how it all works' sections. I can only read so much about fig wasps and nautilus shells. Still his explanation about the evolutio...more

Richard Dawkins's condescending arrogance is getting on my nerves so much that I doubt I'll finish this...
But I stuck with it and I made it through. Interestingly, when Dick Dawkins is focusing on explaining how cool evolution is, and not bagging various religions (well mostly just the Western ones), he is actually a very entertaining, and also quite persuasive, writer.
The middle of the book is very much in that style. Dawkins seems keen to share with the reader something he finds very cool. He...more

Apr 30, 2009Becky Black rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I read this book almost by accident. It was a few years ago and I was joining a mail order book club and this was just 'need one more for my new member special offers, this looks kind of interesting.' I hadn't read anything about science for many years. I'd tried to read Stephen Jay Gould books a couple of times but I never enjoyed them, usually couldn't finish. I had a vague understanding from school about Darwin and evolution, but that was many moons ago!
I got this, I read it and I was gobsmac...more

Oct 29, 2017manka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I come from a family where almost everyone has something against Dawkins. And yet, I somehow won this book. To my surprise it is quite good. Some parts are a little outdated (especially the part about 3D printers and their nonexistence) but it makes sense as it was written 20 years ago.
Once you accept that the author is a bit of an egomaniac, the book is well written, interesting and understandable even for those who never were that much into biology. My favourite parts are definitely those abou...more

Jul 29, 2009Andrew Hennessey rated it did not like it

when richard wrote this book about the slow evolutionary plod of the evolving eye up the billion year probability mountain - a guy in the same faculty who he probably saw in the tea room was dr brian goodwin - who with the use of chaos computation proved that the eye in acetabularia could evolve and devolve spontaneously as appropriate ... richard never really went into 21st century computation, chaos theory and complexity and the chaos law of emergence ... and it was evident scientifically from...more

Sep 25, 2017Natasha rated it did not like it

Too many iffy chapters that were more boring than interesting...

Feb 08, 2013Ralph Hermansen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book being reviewed is titled, 'Climbing Mount Improbable'. The author is Richard Dawkins, who just happens to be one of my favorite authors. I read this book years ago, when I developed an interest in learning more about evolution. I liked the book so much, that I bought copies for my four adult children. To my surprise, none of them completely read it. About a month ago, I decided to reread it and perhaps discover why my kids didn't take to it like I did. I also wanted to see if it appear...more

Nov 13, 2012Noreen rated it it was amazing

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Richard Dawkins makes an eloquent argument here, as he did in The Blind Watchmaker, for natural selection (and thereby against the unimaginative ideology of design by a supernatural creator and the dishonest progeny of that ideology, 'intelligent design'*). He begins with a description of a very uninspired speech about the fig given by a creationist, and ends with his own wondrous scientific tale about the fig and its wasp.
He talks about possibi...more

Dec 20, 2009Mag rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I feel that this book was written solely as an attempt to refute ‘intelligent design’ theory. From the beginning to the end it provides examples of how evolution itself with no external aid could have led the species to the complexity it now possesses. The book starts and ends with a tale of the fig, and how it was a fig, and not an apple, that was offered to Adam by Eve, if Paradise had existed at all, that is.
The fig grows at the top of Mountain Improbable- the peak of evolution as we know it...more

Apr 13, 2013Aurélien Thomas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Once and for all: evolution is NOT about progress, a process tending towards a specific purpose and behind which, then, lies a designer. Using a metaphor (the climbing of a mountain) Dawkins insists here on the gradualism implied by evolution. Spiderwebs, the ability for some species to fly or, again, the eye are as many heights at the top of which he leads us and from where, evolution appears in all its simplicity. Besides, he defends his selfish gene hypothesis and, bounces back on the compute...more

Feb 08, 2010Broodingferret rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This books was excellent; it marks the point where Dawkins really came into his own as an accessible pop-science writer. To add to what I've said before, anyone wanting a clear treatment on evolution designed for the layman should start with The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, followed immediately by Climbing Mount Improbable. Being that it was written much earlier than The Greatest Show on Earth, Climbing Mount Improbable is concerned more with theory than data, but it still...more

If you have found yourself questioning the fact of evolution with the common rejoinder 'but what use is half an eye,' and you really would like a serious answer to that, read this book.
Dawkins explains exactly how 1/2 an eye is better than no eye at all, and just what 1/2 an eye might be. People often think of a literal half an eye, like an eyeball sliced in half, which is, admittedly silly. But if one thinks of a cell more light sensitive than it's neighbors, one can see how it might benefit th...more

Apr 18, 2015Shawn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Nearly twenty years old, but, because it's so full of interesting detail, still very worth reading even for those who already have a decent grasp of natural selection and the ways in which it operates. There are really only a couple of things that clue you in to the book's age, e.g., his comments on 3D printing and nanotechnology, both areas in which progress has, I think, been more rapid that he expected.

May 03, 2012Murray Gunn rated it really liked it

My father, who otherwise is anti-religious, is a creationist. He can't reconcile the complexity of life with the simplicity of evolution. I'm going to recommend this book to him as a fantastic explanation of how simple changes, repeated over and over, can add up to the vast ecosystem we have today. Great work, Dawkins!

An impeccable book on evolution. If you are familiar with Dawkins' earlier works, this may sound a little bit repetitive (it did for me). However, his brilliant prose and ability to make complex topics interesting shines through in this work.
A great work on making the incomprehensibility of evolution comprehensible to a lay audience.
Recommended.

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Jul 13, 2012Jeff Rudisel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If you want to better understand evolution, read Dawkins!
Such explanatory prowess!

Oct 29, 2018Dave rated it really liked it

This was a challenging read. Dawkins works very hard to make the details of evolution understandable, but a couple of times my mind was spinning. That may be because it has been so LONG since I studied biology. Most of his story was accessible to me.
It is also a fascinating read. To see how all things have evolved over the aeons; even things that seem to not lend themselves to Darwin's theory of evolution. Hence the title of the book. Things that seem improbable can be understood and logical thr...more

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Dawkins was a really good popular science writer.

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because that is the purpose of this book i.e., the selling of Richard Dawkins to the ILLS (Incorrigible Liberal Loons) of the press and media. But that was a success, because the ILLs never question or criticize him. Actually, this best forgotten book deserves no r...more

May 11, 2017Isen rated it liked it · review of another edition

The central metaphor of the book is Mount Improbable, peaks of apparent design in the biological landscape, rising up from the chaos we might expect if organic structures formed by chance alone. Dawkins demonstrates how this mountain can be climbed, by taking the reader up the gradual slopes round the rear of the mountain which, with enough time, can be traversed by the process of evolution by natural selection.
The chapters of the book can be roughly divided into two categories. In the first cat...more

Aug 03, 2017Gabriel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A very interesting book that is unfortunately showing its age. Great for beginners and those with only a superficial understanding of the subject, and an excellent companion for The Blind Watchmaker and The Extended Phenotype.
Now for the negatives:
The argument is presented in a very robust fashion, and shows that it does not need any special appeals in order to maintain itself. For instance, while it is known that mutation chance is not very random at all, it could as well be, and it wouldn't de...more

Oct 14, 2017Ed rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I love the theory of evolution! It's fascinating and it makes perfect sense. Richard Dawkins is the go-to popular science writer on evolution, right? He does it so well.
Richard Dawkins is an excellent science writer. I am not well-versed enough in this subject to say whether's he's definitively right on all the points he makes, but what he does do is provide crystal clear exposition which allows even non-sciencey dunderheads like myself to feel like I understand exactly the points he's making.
T...more

Jul 07, 2018Octavia Cade rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Extremely clear and very interesting exploration of how evolutionary change is a result of small useful changes built up over time. And when it's laid out like this it reads like clear common sense - apart from the last chapter, which repeats 'fig' and 'wasp' so very bloody often that both terms begin to lose all meaning, like when you spend too much time looking at a single word and the shape of it turns alien. But that's a small quibble, when placed against the chapter on the development of th...more

Mar 18, 2018Agnetta Klauser rated it really liked it

Once again, Richard Dawkins (with the assistance of his talented wife, Lalla Ward) presents complex ideas in a comprehensible and even entertaining manner. His books should be standard textbooks in senior high school and first year university biology and statistics classes. He demolishes the 'life is too complex to arise by accident' canard in a completely compelling and convincing manner. His use of colourful metaphors (starting with the metaphor of Mount Improbable itself) explains with stunni...more

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