pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: RIVER OUT OF EDEN
A DARWINIAN VIEW OF LIFE
By: Prof Richard Dawkins
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £9.98


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 1780227639
ISBN 13: 9781780227634
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 20 March, 2014
Edition: Digital original
Series: SCIENCE MASTERS
Synopsis: The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins.The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:
A DEVIL'S CHAPLAIN (HB)
A DEVIL'S CHAPLAIN (PB)
A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING (PB)
AN APPETITE FOR WONDER: THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST
AN APPETITE FOR WONDER: THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST (CD)
AN APPETITE FOR WONDER: THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST (HB)
AN APPETITE FOR WONDER: THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST (PB)
ANCESTOR''S TALE
APPETITE FOR WONDER, AN (PB)
ATTACK OF THE THEOCRATS
ATTACK OF THE THEOCRATS
ATTACK OF THE THEOCRATS (HB)
ATTACK OF THE THEOCRATS! (PB)
BLIND WATCHMAKER (PB)
BLIND WATCHMAKER - WHY THE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION REVEALS A UNIVERSE WITHOUT DESIGN (PB)
BOOKS DO FURNISH A LIFE
BOOKS DO FURNISH A LIFE (HB)
BOOKS DO FURNISH A LIFE (PB)
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK (CD)
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK (HB)
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK (HB)
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK (PB)
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK (PB)
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK (PB)
CANDIDATE WITHOUT A PRAYER (HB)
CANDIDATE WITHOUT A PRAYER (PB)
CAUGHT IN THE PULPIT
CAUGHT IN THE PULPIT
CAUGHT IN THE PULPIT (PB)
CHARLES DARWIN (HB)
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (HB)
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (PB)
DAS EGOISTISCHE GEN (PB)
DER ERWEITERTE PHANOTYP (PB)
DER GOTTESWAHN (PB)
DESCENT OF MAN (PB)
EGOISTISCHE GEN
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
FLIGHTS OF FANCY (HB)
FOUR HORSEMEN (HB)
FOUR HORSEMEN (HB)
FROM APOSTLE TO APOSTATE
FROM APOSTLE TO APOSTATE
FROM APOSTLE TO APOSTATE (PB)
GENETIC BOOK OF THE DEAD (HB)
GENIUS OF BRITAIN (HB)
GENIUS OF BRITAIN TEXT ONLY
GOD DELUSION (PB)
GOD DELUSION (PB)
GOD DELUSION (PB)
GOD, THE DEVIL, AND DARWIN (HB)
GOD, THE DEVIL, AND DARWIN (PB)
GOD: THE MOST UNPLEASANT CHARACTER IN ALL FICTION (HB)
GODLESS
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (PB)
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, THE - CD (CD)
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH:THE EVIDENCE FOR
HOW TO KEEP DINOSAURS (HB)
IL ETAIT UNE FOIS NOS ANCETRES (PB)
ILLUSTRATED MAGIC OF REALITY (PB)
INSIDE NATURE'S GIANTS (HB)
L''ILLUSIONE DI DIO
LE GENE EGOISTE (PB)
LE PLUS GRAND SPECTACLE DU MONDE (PB)
MAGIC OF REALITY (HB)
MAGIC OF REALITY (PB)
MAGIC OF REALITY (PB)
NOT ONE MORE DEATH (PB)
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (CD)
OUTGROWING GOD
OUTGROWING GOD (HB)
OUTGROWING GOD (HB)
POR QUE CREEMOS EN DIOS(ES)
POR QUE CREEMOS EN DIOS(ES)
POR QUE CREEMOS EN DIOS(ES) (PB)
POUR EN FINIR AVEC DIEU
Q&A DARWIN (PB)
RED STRANGERS (PB)
RIVER OUT OF EDEN
RIVER OUT OF EDEN
RIVER OUT OF EDEN (PB)
RIVER OUT OF EDEN (PB)
RIVER OUT OF EDEN (PB)
SCIENCE IN THE SOUL
SCIENCE IN THE SOUL (HB)
SCIENCE IN THE SOUL (PB)
SCIENCE IN THE SOUL (PB)
SNAKE OIL AND OTHER PREOCCUPATIONS (PB)
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE (CD)
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE (HB)
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE (PB)
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE (PB)
THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2003 (PB)
THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (PB)
THE DARWIN SELECTION (CD)
THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (HB)
THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (PB)
THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (PB)
THE EXTENDED SELFISH GENE (HB)
THE GENETIC REVOLUTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS (PB)
THE GOD DELUSION
THE GOD DELUSION (CD)
THE GOD DELUSION (PB)
THE GOD DELUSION (PB)
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (HB)
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (PB)
THE MAGIC OF REALITY
THE MAGIC OF REALITY (CD)
THE MAGIC OF REALITY (HB)
THE MAGIC OF REALITY (PB)
THE MAGIC OF REALITY (PB)
THE MAGIC OF REALITY (PB)
THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNBELIEF (HB)
THE OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN SCIENCE WRITING (HB)
THE OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN SCIENCE WRITING (PB)
THE SELFISH GENE (HB)
THE SELFISH GENE (PB)
THE SELFISH GENE (PB)
THE SELFISH GENE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION (PB)
THE TINBERGEN LEGACY (HB)
THE TINBERGEN LEGACY (PB)
THE VOYAGE OF THE "BEAGLE" (CD)
UNTITLED RICHARD DAWKINS (PB)
UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (PB)
UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (PB)
WHY WE BELIEVE IN GOD (PB)
WHY WE BELIEVE IN GOD(S)
WHY WE BELIEVE IN GOD(S)



Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket