The Blind Watchmaker
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a popular science book by Richard Dawkins. It explains how the cumulative, nonrandom process of natural selecti
First edition cover
Theo Jansen
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Theodorus Gerardus Jozef Jansen is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own and, collectively, are titled Strandbeest. The kinetic scul
The Blind Watchmaker
…display of expository scientific prose of the 20th century. It gave me the idea to try my hand at the genre in The Language Instinct." The engineer Theo Jansen read the book in 1986 and became fascinated by evolution and natural selection. Since 1990 he has been building kinetic sculptures, the Strandbeest…
Jansen in 2007
A strandbeest, exhibited by Jansen on the Linz city square during Ars Electronica, 2005