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"The poet William Blake wrote of seeing "the universe in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower." When you know how to look you can see billions of years inside the organs, cells and DNA in all living things and relish our connections to the rest of life on our planet."
To those who don't believe in evolution, I would say, isn't it a greater God who could create a world where everything came from everything and would be eternally connected? Where to the end of time, the history of all beings ...more
To those who don't believe in evolution, I would say, isn't it a greater God who could create a world where everything came from everything and would be eternally connected? Where to the end of time, the history of all beings ...more
In this wonderful book, palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin takes us on a grand history of evolution, demonstrating how the power of progress lies not in the caricature of millions of random changes, but on the way existing structures are constantly repurposed from one use to another - from bones and body segments, to “jumping genes” that move around the genome and are co-opted into new roles, to viruses and bacteria that become absorbed into whole new organisms and allow for
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Fascinating books by scientists of many stripes (biochemists, microbiologists, zoologists, anthropologists, molecular paleontologists, physician-scientists) about genetic deduction of evolution have become a subgenre in themselves in recent years, so by the time I got around to reading Neil Shubin's excellent addition to the genre, the concepts were no longer new but nonetheless fascinating.
Recommended further reading:
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
Humaninal: Ho ...more
Recommended further reading:
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
Humaninal: Ho ...more
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