Richard Dawkins' account of evolution has been acclaimed as the most influential work on its subject in the last hundred years. It explores how the unconscious, blind yet essentially non-random process of natural selection discovered by Darwin is the only answer to the most important question of all: why do we exist?

'Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... His subject is nothing less than the meaning of life'
The Times

'Popularscience at its best'
The Times

'Good writing, tight argument and unpulled punches ... a satisfying book'
Economist

'One of the best science books - one of the best of any books - I have ever read'
Los Angeles Times

'Grave wit and thrilling godlessness'
Martin Amis