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Almost Like a Whale: The 'Origin of Species' Updated (Paperback)
$18.11 - Save $0.96 (5%) - RRP $19.07 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Almost Like a WhaleIn his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of evolution, the grammar of the living world.It reveals ties between cancer and the genetics of fish, between brewing and inherited disease, between th...
Full description- Publisher: Black Swan
- Published: 01 September 2000
- Format: Paperback 519 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Evolution
- ISBN 13: 9780552999588 ISBN 10: 055299958X
- Sales rank: 126,055
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Full description for Almost Like a Whale
In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of evolution, the grammar of the living world.It reveals ties between cancer and the genetics of fish, between brewing and inherited disease, between the sex lives of crocodiles and the politics of Brazil. Darwin used the biology of the nineteenth century to prove his case. Now, that science has been revolutionized and his case can be reargued using the twentieth century's astonishing advances. From AIDS to dinosaurs, from conservation to cloned sheep, bursting with anecdotes, jokes and irresistible facts, Almost Like a Whale is a popular account of the science that makes biology make sense. It will catch the millennial mood and tell all those for whom Darwin is merely a familiar name what he really meant. It exposes the Darwinian delusions which try (and fail) to explain human behaviour in evolutionary terms, and, while giving an up-to-date account of our own past, shows how humans are the first species to step beyond the constraints of biology.
