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The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins's 1986 book arguing that natural selection is sufficient to explain biological complexity — no designer required — using the analogy that a watchmaker (designer) who never sees the final product is effectively blind, while evolution builds complexity through accumulated small improvements.

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