How Evolution Explains Everything about Life: From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory (Instant Expert) - Softcover

New Scientist

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473658454 ISBN 13: 9781473658455

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.

All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.

We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions of years of work by the forces of evolution to turn what was once a lump of barren rock into the rich diversity of into plants, animals and microbes that surround us. In the process, evolution has created all manner of useful adaptions, from biological computers (brains) to a system to capture energy from the sun (photosynthesis).

But how does evolution actually work? In How Evolution Explains Everything, leading biologists and New Scientist take you on a journey of a lifetime, exploring the question of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke, and how it got kick-started. Does evolution have a purpose or direction? Are selfish genes really the driving force of evolution? And is evolution itself evolving?

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Edition details

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473658454
• ISBN 13: 9781473658455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288