What drives species to evolve? How can intricate structures in nature develop seemingly by chance? In Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth.Regarding evolution's most complex achievements as peaks on a metaphorical mountain, the book reveals how the theory of natural selection can precisely explain the beautiful, bizarre and seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things.Accompanied by evocative illustrations, Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of the living world's astonishing adaptations throw back the curtain on the mysteries of 'Mount Improbable'.