The Blind Watchmaker

Apr 30, 2025 6:27 AM

Author:Richard Dawkins

***30th Anniversary Edition***

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?

Reviews

Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... His subject is nothing less than the meaning of life, and he attacks it with the evangelical fervour of a clergyman and the mind of a scientist

—— The Times

Beautiful ... he seizes happy analogies, bright metaphors and shining images to light up his passion and our darkness

—— Guardian

Good writing, tight argument and unpulled punches ... a satisfying book

—— Economist

One of the best science books - one of the best of any books - I have ever read

—— Los Angeles Times

This book is courageous, disturbing, original and at times brilliant.

—— Simon Barnes

Richly lyrical and deeply confessional… a triumph of rhapsodic writing that can lift the heart.

—— Radio Times

A magical portrait

—— Lemn Sissay , BBC R4 Midweek

Extraordinarily vivid and utterly unique…surely destined to be some of the most talked-about nature writing of the year

—— BBC Countryfile Magazine

Astonishing… brilliantly written

—— Craig McLean , Radio Times

Fierce, disturbing and surprising

—— Sunday Times

This is a raw, strange, mesmerising book; an impressionistic take on Packham’s life and the natural world that transformed it.

—— Express

A thrillingly dangerous book- 5 stars

—— Simon Barnes , Mail on Sunday

As powerful a tale as you could wish for

—— Simon Barnes , Mail on Sunday

This is a book full of courage… It helps us to enjoy life better and to endure it better

—— Simon Barnes , Mail on Sunday

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