Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to...
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Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics by Vellend, Mark

Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

$76.38

Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

$76.38
Author: Mark Vellend
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence

Everything Evolves reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial intelligence capable of evolving its own solutions to thorny problems.

Taking readers on an astonishing journey, Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Vellend shows how this Second Science unifies biology and culture and how evolution gives rise to everything from viruses and giraffes to nation-states, technology, and us. He discusses how the idea of evolution had precedents in areas such as language and economics long before it was made famous by Darwin, and how only by freeing ourselves of the notion that the study of evolution must start with biology can we appreciate the true breadth of evolutionary processes.

A sweeping tour of the natural and social sciences, Everything Evolves is an essential introduction to one of the two key pillars to the scientific enterprise and an indispensable guide to understanding some of the most difficult challenges of the Anthropocene.

Author: Mark Vellend
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 08/19/2025
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780691253404


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2025

About the Author
Mark Vellend is professor of biology at the Université de Sherbrooke and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Theory of Ecological Communities (Princeton).

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