Climbing Mount Improbable
v1.0.0Richard Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable — a masterful explanation of how natural selection gradually builds complex biological structures. Uses the Mount Improbable metaphor: the sheer cliff of apparent "irreducible complexity" vs. the gradual slope of cumulative selection. Covers 5 use cases: ① Evolution explained — how natural selection works, cumulative vs single-step selection, and why evolution creates complexity without a designer ("How evolution works" "Natural selection explained" "Darwin's theory" "Complex structures") ② The Mount Improbable metaphor — eyes, wings, and other complex structures are not challenges to evolution but its best evidence ("Irreducible complexity" "Evolution of the eye" "Evolution of the wing" "Design in nature") ③ Spider webs and silk — the engineering marvel of spider silk and how different silks evolved step by step for specific purposes ("Spider silk" "Web evolution" "Spider behavior" "Trap building") ④ Flight and insects — how flight evolved in insects, birds, pterosaurs, and bats through completely different paths ("Evolution of flight" "Insect wings" "Feather evolution" "Bat wings") ⑤ Mollusc shells and diversity — how the "Museum of All Shells" shows small genetic changes producing vast variation ("Mollusc shells" "Shell evolution" "Biological diversity" "Natural variation") Trigger when users say: "Mount Improbable" "Richard Dawkins" "Evolution" "Natural selection" "Irreducible complexity" "Eye evolution" "Spider silk" "Gradual evolution" "Darwin" "Blind Watchmaker" "Climbing Mount Improbable" "Cumulative selection" or mention: Richard Dawkins / evolution / natural selection / Climbing Mount Improbable / eye evolution / spider web / flight evolution / co-evolution / Darwin / irreducible complexity / cumulative selection. Also triggers when the user says they just installed this skill or doesn't know how to start — the AI MUST proactively present the Quick Start guide below. Related skills: a-short-history-of-nearly-everything (history of science), cosmos (science storytelling), selfish-gene (Dawkins earlier book), collapse (evolution of societies).
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