Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea in Science and Inquiry

Jun 29, 2019 Petra X rated it it was amazing

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I thought I knew about Evolution, about the random mutation of genes and the success of some mutations that convey an advantage to the host in the environment and could be the beginning of a new species or variety of plant or animal. That is the base. Saying that one and one makes two is at the base of mathematics but tells you very little of the depth and breadth of numbers. And so it is with this book.

I can't review it any better except to say it filled my head with ideas and conjectures for t ...more

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Jul 24, 2021 Jimmy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: atheism, science

This book was the companion piece for a PBS television series in 2001.

Around America, and the world for that matter, evolution is being assaulted as religious superstition grows. In my country, tax dollars are being spent for religious schools where they teach things like the age of the Earth is about 6,000 years old. That is simply ignorance.

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Mar 03, 2009 Sam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: popular-science, proper-books, ecology

Although this was a bit of a heavy read it was very informative and engrossing. Some of the issues discussed make you ashamed to be human (note the chapter on man-made mass extinctions) while others make you proud. A very very interesting book with lots of facts that make you really pay attention to life all the more

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