An elegant, text-only paperback edition of the New York Times
bestseller that's been hailed as the definitive authority
on...everything.
Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world's most celebrated
evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many
wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his
unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world
really works.
Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The
Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena:
How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected
pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many
kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman?
Starting with the magical, mythical explanations for the wonders of
nature, Dawkins reveals the exhilarating scientific truths behind these
occurrences. This is a page-turning detective story that not only mines
all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a
scientist as well.