Nourri d'anecdotes sur les abeilles, les orchidées, les organes de la vision et les ancêtres de l'homme, ce livre répond à de multiples questions sur l'évolution des espèces.

Qu'est-ce que l'evolution ?

The Extended Selfish Gene

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism.Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more. The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.

Il était une fois nos ancêtres: Une histoire de l'évolution

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.

Pour en finir avec Dieu

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?

L'Horloger aveugle

Proposant une vision strictement darwinienne mais rigoureuse et passionnée de l'Évolution, le livre de Richard Dawkins propose de comparer l'évolution à un fleuve, où seuls survivent les gènes les plus aptes. Cette démonstration serrée est riche d'anecdotes, sur le monde des abeilles et des orchidées, sur la « finalité » de l'oeil, sur les ancêtres de l'homme, etc.
Un ouvrage d'introduction qui sait allier une remarquable qualité pédagogique à une rigueur sans faille.

Qu'est-ce que l'evolution ? le fleuve de la vie

Alors que vient d'être célébré le bicentenaire de la naissance de Darwin, Richard Dawkins, extraordinaire vulgarisateur, rassemble « les données probantes montrant que la théorie de l'évolution est vraie » et nous permet de comprendre de façon lumineuse cette théorie ? la plus importante de la biologie. Nous sommes presque sûrs aujourd'hui que nous descendons tous, avec toutes les créatures vivantes, d'un même ancêtre. Darwin lui-même a pu se sentir choqué par cette révélation que la nature, au fil de l'évolution, montre une indifférence totale aux souffrances et à la disparition de ceux qui n'étaient pas les plus aptes. Mais si l'on voit des mantes religieuses manger leurs mâles pour avoir une meilleure descendance, il n'est pas question pour autant d'en tirer une morale dévoyée. Ce qu'il faut voir, à l'inverse, c'est que l'évolution a permis d'obtenir un monde d'une complexité et d'une élégance rares, pour tout dire merveilleux. D'où le titre de ce livre...

Le plus grand spectacle du monde

Comment la science explique le monde et ses mystères

La Magie de la Réalité

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism. Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more. The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.

Qu'est-ce que l'evolution ?

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