![]() But the fig story is only one out of millions that all have the same Darwinian grammar and logic - albeit the fig story is among the most satisfyingly intricate in evolution. In this book I want to move to a position where I can tell the true story of the fig. Norton and Ravi wonders to uplift an aesthetic one. Mark Ridley, Matt Ridley, Charles Simonyi and Lalla Ward Dawkins read the whole book in a late draft and provided helpful criticism and reassuring encouragement in needful proportions. All four of these experts gave generously of their knowledge when I tapped it. Fritz Vollrath and Peter Fuchs gave expert readings of Chapter 2, while Michael Land and Dan Nilsson did the same for Chapter 5. Michael Rodgers read and constructively criticized early drafts of more chapters than are here printed, and advised decisively on the reconstruction of the whole book. Bryson Gore of the Royal Institution, together with William Woollard and Richard Melman of Inca Television, influenced the lectures greatly, and traces of their influence will still be found in this greatly transformed and enlarged book. Nevertheless I should like to thank the Director of the Royal Institution for honouring me with the invitation to join the historic lineage of Christmas Lecturers going all the way back to Michael Faraday. Moreover, my book itself has grown up and changed, so it is no longer fair to call it the book of the Christmas Lectures. ![]() I have had to abandon that title because at least three other books have since appeared with almost identical names. THIS BOOK GREW OUT OF MY ROYAL INSTITUTION Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC under the general title Growing Up in the Universe. WW Norton & Company Ltd., 10 Coptic Street, London WCIA IPUĥ The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment 138 ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index.ġ. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicaiion DataĬlimbing mount improbable / Richard Dawkins original drawings by Lalla Ward. Manufacturing by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. ![]() The text of this book is composed in Centaur. Original drawings copyright © 1996 by Lalla Ward ![]()
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