The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Dawkins, Richard
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Dawkins, Richard

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading...
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Author: Richard Dawkins
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Dawkins, Richard

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

$70.46
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Dawkins, Richard

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

$70.46
Author: Richard Dawkins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds

An exquisitely camouflaged lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones "painted" on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of an ancient desert, a world in which its ancestors survived. Such descriptions are more than skin deep, however. They penetrate the very warp and woof of the entire animal.

In this groundbreaking exploration of the power of Darwinian evolution and what it can reveal about the past, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behavior, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book--an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. In the future, a zoologist presented with a hitherto unknown animal will be able to decode its ancestral history, to read its unique "book of the dead." Such readings are already uncovering the remarkable ways animals overcome obstacles, adapt to their environments, and, again and again, develop remarkably similar ways of solving life's problems.

From the author of The Selfish Gene comes a revolutionary, richly illustrated book that unlocks the door to a past more vivid, nuanced, and fascinating than anything we have seen.

Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 09/17/2024
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300278095

About the Author
Richard Dawkins was the inaugural Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His numerous books include the best-selling The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Blind Watchmaker. He lives in Oxford, UK. Jana Lenzová is a translator and illustrator and is acclaimed for her work on Dawkins's Flights of Fancy. She lives in Oxford, UK.
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