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  River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters) (Paperback) By (author) Richard Dawkins

  

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  Short Description for River Out of EdenThe Number One SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author Richard Dawkins.
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 20 May 1996
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Science: General Issues | Evolution | Genetics (non-medical)
  • ISBN 13: 9781857994056 ISBN 10: 1857994051
  • Sales rank: 40,887

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• The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.