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Flights of Fancy

Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

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Flights of Fancy

Written by: Richard Dawkins
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
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The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.

Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?

In Flights of Fancy, Richard Dawkins explains how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. From the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella fairyfly and the Peregrine falcon. But it is also about flights of the mind, about escaping the everyday - through science, ideas and imagination.

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While there is little that is new in the book the narrative describes the evolution of flight with very interesting parallels to similar human innovations underpinned by the common laws of physics. The examples as always are n brilliant chosen and illustrate the strange world of evolution.

Richard Dawkins at his usual best

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Couldn't be better than how Richard Dawkins explains a scientific concept.
awaiting your next book, sir.

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