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''Climbing Mount Improbable'' is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution, and is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection. The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape, upon which evolution can only ascend in a gradual way, not being able to climb cliffs (this is known as an adaptive landscape). In the book Dawkins gives ideas about a seemingly complex mechanism coming about from many gradual steps that were previously unseen. The book grew out of the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which Dawkins delivered in 1991 (see ''Growing Up in the Universe''). It is illustrated by Dawkins' wife Lalla Ward; and is dedicated to Robert Winston, "a good doctor and a good man". ==External links== * ("Climbing Mount Improbable (book reviews) ), Frank Graham Jr. * Book review ("The Mystery Of Life" ), John Horgan, ''Slate'', September 1996. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Climbing Mount Improbable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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