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Books like Climbing Mount Improbable
The best books like Climbing Mount Improbable are The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The Ancestor's Tale. Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins is about evolution, natural selection, complexity. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Selfish Gene reframes evolution from the organism's point of view to the gene's.
Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - The Blind Watchmaker
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Blind Watchmaker is Richard Dawkins's argument that natural selection — cumulative, non-random selection acting on random variation — is sufficient to explain the apparent design in biological organisms.
Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - The Ancestor's Tale
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Ancestor's Tale is Richard Dawkins's account of the history of life on Earth, told backwards: beginning with humans and traveling back in evolutionary time to meet successive ancestors at the points where different lineages join.
Both dig into evolution.
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- On the Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin · Science
On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, is the book in which Charles Darwin presented the theory of evolution by natural selection to the general reading public.
Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - The Gene: An Intimate History
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Siddhartha Mukherjee · Science
The Gene is Siddhartha Mukherjee's account of the gene — what it is, how it was discovered, and what humanity has done and might yet do with that knowledge.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins · Science
The Greatest Show on Earth is Richard Dawkins's systematic presentation of the evidence for evolution by natural selection.
Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - Life Ascending
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Nick Lane · Science
Life Ascending is Nick Lane's examination of what he calls evolution's ten greatest inventions: the origin of life itself, DNA, photosynthesis, the complex cell, sex, movement, sight, hot blood, consciousness, and death.
Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - Scale
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Geoffrey West · Science
Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist who spent decades at Los Alamos and the Santa Fe Institute studying whether there are mathematical laws underlying all complex systems — organisms, cities, companies — and finding that the answer appears to be yes.
Shares complexity and biology with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - The Extended Phenotype
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Extended Phenotype is Richard Dawkins's most technical and, by his own account, most important book.
Shares evolution and adaptation with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - The Vital Question
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Nick Lane · Science
The Vital Question asks why life is the way it is — why all complex life is eukaryotic, why eukaryotes all have mitochondria, why sex exists, why organisms age and die, and why life may be exceedingly rare in the universe.
Shares evolution and complexity with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - Why Evolution Is True
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Jerry A. Coyne · Science
Why Evolution Is True is evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne's systematic case for evolution, written for readers who want a rigorous but accessible treatment of the evidence.
Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable.
Read the summary → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
Both dig into evolution.
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Books like Climbing Mount Improbable: quick answers
What are the best books like Climbing Mount Improbable?
The best books like Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins are The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Climbing Mount Improbable, such as evolution, natural selection, complexity.
What should I read after Climbing Mount Improbable?
A natural next read after Climbing Mount Improbable is The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Shares evolution and natural selection with Climbing Mount Improbable. Other strong choices are The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
What books are similar to Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins?
Climbing Mount Improbable centers on evolution, natural selection, complexity. Books with a similar feel include The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
