Richard Dawkins - River Out of Eden A Darwinian View of Life

Written by Richard Dawkins. Themes include Science & Math, Biological Sciences, Biology, Evolution, Genetics.

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.

Format: Hardcover

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