The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins
How natural selection, blind and unplanned, produces the appearance of design: the eye, biomorphs, cumulative selection. Dawkins's clearest argument.
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you want design explained without a designer.
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Three things you will actually use
- Cumulative selection is the key.
- Complexity builds slowly.
- Design is an illusion of process.
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Read the chapter on accumulating small change.
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The blind watchmaker.
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