'Up until now, Richard Dawkins has said everything interesting that there is to say about evolution - with one exception. In reading Dawkins, one is left awed at the beauty of the theory and humbled by the power of science to understand some of the greatest mysteries of life.' - Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish It is hard not to marvel at Richard Dawkins's luminous telling of the story of evolution and the way that it has shaped our world. 'To call this book a defense of evolution utterly misses the point: The Greatest Show on Earth is a celebration of one of the best ideas humans have ever produced. There is no one better qualified to convey this grandeur than his worthy successor, Richard Dawkins, who writes with passion, clarity, and wit. ''There is grandeur in this view of life,' said Darwin, speaking of evolution. 'This is a magnificent book of wonderstanding: Richard Dawkins combines an artist's wonder at the virtuosity of nature with a scientist's understanding of how it comes to be.'' - Matt Ridley, author of Nature via Nurture Dawkins emerges like a prize-fighter, knocking out of the ring all objections.”

“Unambiguous, beautifully argued, with prose like quicksilver. It's badly needed in this era when the science of evolution is being threatened in our schools.” out evidence with such fascinating detail that the book is both scientifically exciting and completely convincing. “Brilliant, detailed, anecdotal and immensely readable. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence-from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos from plate tectonics to molecular genetics-to make the airtight case that 'we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection.' His unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master’s vision of life, in all its splendor. 'Intelligent Design' is being taught in our schools educators are being asked to 'teach the controversy' behind evolutionary theory.

Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of 'Intelligent Design' in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth.

He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone.

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