The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Dawkins, Richard
ISBN 10: 0300278098 ISBN 13: 9780300278095
Published by Yale University Press, 2024
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From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Science • Named Science Book of the Year by Times (UK) • A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2024
“Intellectually sparkling and beautifully crafted.”—Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street Journal
“A glorious affair. . . . Arguably [Dawkins’s] 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 groundbreaking 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 of its ancestors. In the future, a zoologist presented with a hitherto unknown animal will be able to decode its ancestral history, to read its unique “book of the dead.” Such readings are already uncovering the remarkable ways animals overcome obstacles, adapt to their environments, and, again and again, develop remarkably similar ways of solving life’s problems.
From the author of The Selfish Gene comes a revolutionary, richly illustrated book that unlocks the door to a past more vivid, nuanced, and fascinating than anything we have seen.
About the Author: Richard Dawkins was the inaugural Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His numerous books include the best-selling The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Blind Watchmaker. He lives in Oxford, UK. Jana Lenzová is a translator and illustrator and is acclaimed for her work on Dawkins’s Flights of Fancy. She lives in Oxford, UK.
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Title: The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian ...
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: hardcover
Illustrator: Lenzova, Jana
Condition: Very Good