The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Richard Dawkins
From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
"Richard Dawkins's new book is a glorious affair. Profusely illustrated in color by Jana Lenzová, it is arguably his most joyous ode to the wonders that evolution has wrought in the animal world."—Philip Ball, Science
"Richard Dawkins's new book is a glorious affair. Profusely illustrated in color by Jana Lenzová, it is arguably his most joyous ode to the wonders that evolution has wrought in the animal world."—Philip Ball, Science
An exquisitely camouflaged lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones "painted" on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of an ancient desert, a world in which its ancestors survived. Such descriptions are more than skin deep, however. They penetrate the very warp and woof of the entire animal.
In this ground-breaking exploration of the power of Darwinian evolution and what it can reveal about the past, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behavior, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book—an archive of the worlds...
年:
2024
出版社:
Yale University Press
言語:
english
ページ:
360
ISBN 10:
0300281668
ISBN 13:
9780300281668
ファイル:
EPUB, 67.74 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2024