A stylish, text-only paperback edition of the brand new York Situations bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority in…everything.

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author as well as the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the countless wonders of science. Here, he requires a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory power to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping information, The Magic of Truth explains a stunningly wide variety of organic phenomena: How old is the universe? Why do the continents appear to be disconnected bits of a jigsaw puzzle? What can cause tsunamis? Why is there so many types of vegetation and animals? Who was simply the first guy, or woman? You start with the marvelous, mythical explanations for the miracles of nature, Dawkins reveals the exhilarating medical truths behind these occurrences. This is a page-turning detective story that not only mines all the sciences because of its signs but primes the audience to think just like a scientist aswell.