Richard Dawkins (1941-)
The genetic book of the dead

a Darwinian reverie


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781804548080

Biologi och evolution. Förlagsband från Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 360 sidor, engelska.

  • Utforskar evolutionär historia genom DNA och fossiler.

  • Ger insikter om konvergent evolution och livets lösningar.

  • Utgiven i förlagsband av Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

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Bokförlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Omfång: 360 s. | Språk: Engelska

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From one of the world's great science writers and biologists: a book that reflects on the vast arc of evolutionary history and what it tells us about life on earth. How much do we really know about our past? For centuries, we have yearned to learn more about our ancestors and piece together the story of how we came to be. But language can only record so much. And fossils can be even harder to decipher. We are left groping in the dark, forced to speculate and reconstruct ways of life based on fragments of information. But what if there was a better way? In The Genetic Book of the Dead, Richard Dawkins explores the untapped potential of DNA to transform and transcend our understanding of evolution. In the future, a zoologist presented with a hitherto unknown animal will be able to read its body and its genes as detailed descriptions of the world its ancestors inhabited. This 'book of the dead' would uncover the remarkable ways in which animals have overcome obstacles, adapted to their environments and, again and again, developed remarkably similar ways of finding solutions to life's problems. What biologists call 'convergent evolution', the way in which species separated by vast stretches of time have evolved surprisingly recognisable forms and functions, is one of the most powerful and least understood forces driving life on earth. From the bestselling author of The Selfish Gene comes a revolutionary book that unlocks the door to a past more vivid, nuanced and fascinating than anything we have ever seen.


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