Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins <i>Harmondsworth, UK, Viking, 1996, xi + 308 pP., $19.95 (Pb) ISBN 0 14 026302 0</i>

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Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins Harmondsworth, UK, Viking, 1996, xi + 308 pP., $19.95 (Pb) ISBN 0 14 026302 0

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): December 1998

Volume: 16

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Pages: 529-532

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Publisher ID: 8629305 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1998: pp. 529–532

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A. R. Wallace, ‘On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from their original type’, Journal of Proceedings of Linnean Society, Zoology, III, London, 1859.
C. Darwin, Notebook D, 135 e, in G de Beer et al., ‘Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species, Part IV, pages excised by Darwin’, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series, 3(5), London, 1960.
R. A. Fisher, ‘The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendclian Inheritance’, Trans R. Soc. Edinb., 52, 1918, pp. 399–433.
Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague, Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1994, 1995.
D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form, J. T. Bonner, Ed. Abridged Edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1966.
John Postgate, ‘The Sulphur Bacteria’, New Biology, 17, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1954.
V. C. Wynne-Edwards, Evolution Through Group Selection, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1986.

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[1] A. R. Wallace, ‘On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from their original type’, Journal of Proceedings of Linnean Society, Zoology, III, London, 1859.

[2] C. Darwin, Notebook D, 135 e, in G de Beer et al., ‘Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species, Part IV, pages excised by Darwin’, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series, 3(5), London, 1960.

[3] R. A. Fisher, ‘The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendclian Inheritance’, Trans R. Soc. Edinb., 52, 1918, pp. 399–433.

[4] Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague, Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1994, 1995.

[5] D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form, J. T. Bonner, Ed. Abridged Edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1966.

[6] John Postgate, ‘The Sulphur Bacteria’, New Biology, 17, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1954.

[7] V. C. Wynne-Edwards, Evolution Through Group Selection, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1986.