'Mount Improbable is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection: its peaks standing for evolution's most complex achievements: the human brain, the squid's eye, and the albatross's aeronautical prowess exhilarating a perfect, elegant riposte to a great deal of fuzzy thinking about natural selection and evolution' Robin Mckie, Observer.
What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures such as the human eye, the spider's web or the wings of birds develop, seemingly by chance? Regarding evolution's most complex achievements as peaks on a metaphorical mountain, Climbing Mount Improbable reveals the ways in which the theory of natural selection can precisely explain the beautiful, bizarre and seemingly 'designed' complexity of life in all its forms.