The Genetic Book of the Dead
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2024From one of the world’s 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
‘gene’s-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 Ancestor’s Tale comes a
revolutionary, richly illustrated book that unlocks the door to an
ancient past, seen through wholly new eyes.
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Richard Dawkins ,
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Richard Dawkins,
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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