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From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Science • Named Science Book of the Year by Times (UK) • A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2024
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Another fascinating evolutionary study from Dawkins.
I have long been a fan of the work of Richard Dawkins, a renowned biologist and a brilliant writer, famous for such works as The Selfish Gene, and The Blind Watchman.
In his latest book, Dawkins posits that living organisms can be read as documents describing the ancient worlds in which their ancestors evolved and survived. For example, a camouflaged lizard features a desert landscape of sand and stones on its back. This adaptation is not just skin deep as such adaptations run throughout the entire animal.
In this book, replete with…
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