EAN: 9781804548080

DAWKINS RICHARD THE GENETIC BOOK OF THE DEAD

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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