Dear Mr. Darwin Letters on the Evolution

Gabriel Dover

ISBN 10: 0297842595 / ISBN 13: 9780297842590

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000

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8vo pp. 268,

Seller Inventory # 365756

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Mr. Darwin Letters on the Evolution
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297842595
• ISBN 13: 9780297842590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Dear Mr. Darwin, You may find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen & write to you more than 100 years after death . . . So begins a correspondence -- from a 21st-century geneticist to the author of On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859 -- debating the surprising findings of modern genetics & their influence on the evolution of biological novelties, from genes to organisms to human nature. Author Dover sets up a lively & stimulating discourse. From junk DNA & selfish genes to the position of the individual organism at evolution s center-stage, this book illuminates some of the most complex theories of contemporary biology & Dover s own original view of evolution in a uniquely compelling & readable way.