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Climbing mount improbable
Abstract
Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection, and the central message of this text is that DNA transcends the significance of the organism, and that organisms are merely vehicles for genes.
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1997-04-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 08
- Pages
- 34-4466-34-4466
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W2096709995
- Cited by
- 820
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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