Richard Dawkins, the world.s most famous evolutionary biologist, presents
a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature.s most
fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective.

Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world.
Before we developed the scientific method, we created rich mythologies to
explain the unknown. The pressing questions that primitive men and women
asked are the same ones we ask as children. Who was the first person? What
is the sun? Why is there night and day? The myths that address these
questions are beautiful, but in every case their beauty is exceeded by the
scientific truth.

With characteristic clarity and verve, Dawkins answers these big questions.
Looking first at some of the myths that arose to answer the question, he
then, dazzles us with the facts. He looks at the building blocks of matter,
the first humans, the sun.explaining the life and death of stars; why
there.s a night and a day.ranging from our solar system to the inner
workings of our planet; what a rainbow really is.going from the rainbow in
your backyard to the age of the universe; and finally, he poses a question
that still baffles scientists: When did everything begin?

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