Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last 100 years, 'The Blind Watchmaker' offers an inspiring introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. This brilliant and controversial book 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? Richard Dawkins updated evolution and his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life and he attacks it with the fervour of a clergyman and the mind of a scientist. He seizes on shining images to light up his tight argument in one of the best science books you will ever have read. 'On geological timescale, 60,000 years is an instant. We look at the animals and plants today and we should realise they are all the outcome of a billion years long evolutionary process.' 'The information technology of the genes is digital. This fact was discovered by Gregor Mendel in the last century, although he wouldn't have put it like that.' Dawkins talks about technology from 30 years ago which he explains in his introduction to the 2006 edition which is the one here reprinted by Penguin Books. 465 page paperback.