The existence of complex life is one of the great mysteries of evolution, for complexity is neither inevitable nor necessary. This book shows how two major biological hurdles had to be overcome to allow living complexity to evolve - gene copying errors and natural selection.
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Mark Ridley is in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. He was formerly assistant professor of anthropology and biology at Emory University, Georgia, USA. He has also been a research fellow at St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and at Linacre, Oriel and New Colleges, Oxford. He is the author of the acclaimed student textbook Evolution and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Nature, New Scientist and The TLS, among other publications. Mendel's Demon is his long-awaited trade debut.
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Splendid treatise on mutation,
By Matthew C. Keller "grad_student_in_a-squared" (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life (Hardcover)
I won't write a long review here. Suffice it to say that this is one of the best books on evolutionary theory I have read in a while, and it is a fascinating and detailed look into one of the most fundamental aspects of our living world: mutation... without which there would be no genetic variation and, therefore, no life. Ridley's thesis is that the limit on the evolution of complex life is in overcoming the problem of mutation. This book is engagingly written and convincing. I would think that any evolutionary biologist or geneticist would find this a must read. Truly inspiring.
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