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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

English

By (author): Richard Dawkins

Illustrated by: Jana Lenzová

From one of the worlds great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.

In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones painted on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of ancient deserts in which its ancestors survived and, before that, of the worlds of its more remote ancestors: a genetic book of the dead.

But such descriptions are more than skin-deep. The fine chisels of Darwinian natural selection carve their way through the very warp and woof of the body, into every biochemical nook and corner, into every cell of every living creature. A zoologist of the future, presented with a hitherto-unknown animal, will be able to reconstruct the worlds that shaped its ancestors, to read its unique book of the dead.

The book is filled with fascinating examples of the power of Darwinian natural selection to build exquisite perfection, paradoxically accompanied by what look like gross blunders. Along the way, Dawkins dismantles influential criticisms of the genes-eye-view of life. And, to end with a provocative sting in the tail, the author asks there is a sense in which all our own genes can be seen as a gigantic colony of cooperating viruses?

From the author of The Selfish Gene and The Ancestors Tale comes a revolutionary, richly illustrated book that unlocks the door to an ancient past, seen through wholly new eyes.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781804548080

About Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is one of the world's most eminent writers and thinkers. He is the award-winning author of The Selfish Gene The Blind Watchmaker The God Delusion and a string of other bestselling science books. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins lives in Oxford.Jana Lenzová born and raised in Bratislava Slovakia is an illustrator translator and interpreter. After Jana had been commissioned to translate The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins into Slovak she began contributing to his books as an illustrator.

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