River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins.

The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION

''Dawkins is a brilliant communicator'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

''A model of simplicity and power'' Douglas Adams

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.

• | Author: Prof Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins
• | Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• | Publication Date: Mar 05, 2015
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781780226897
• | ISBN-10: 1780226896