The Greatest Show on Earth. The Evidence For Evolution

London England: Bantam Books, 2009. Hardback. First Edition. Date written to inside front cover. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. In this book the author takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection. In this brilliant tour de force he pulls together the incontrovertible evidence that underpins it. Like a detective arriving on the scene of a crime, he sifts through fascinating layers of scientific facts and disciplines to build a cart-iron case: from the living examples of natural selection in birds and insexts, the 'time clocks' of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record and the tracesof our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology and genetics. All of this, and much more, bears witness to the truth of evolution. This book comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before, especially in America. In Britain and elsewhere in the world, teachers witness insidious attempts to undermine the status of science in their classrooms. Richard Dawkins provides unequivocal evidence that boldly and comprehensively rebuts such nonsense. At the same time he shares with us his palable love of the natural world and the essential role that science plays in its interpretation. Written with elegance, wit and passion, it is hard-hitting, absorbing and totally convincing. Illustrated. 470 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.