Understanding Evolution

Recently Received: Evolution: A Beginner's Guide, by Burt Guttman. Publisher: Oneworld Publications.

Ideas about evolution can be traced back to ancient Greece, but modern evolutionary theory as it is understood today is largely a product of Charles Darwin and 20th century developments in genetics and biology. Despite the fact that evolutionary theory is the foundation of modern biology, though, few people really seem to understand it — what it says, what it doesn’t say, and what its implications are. People need a basic introduction to evolutionary theory and modern biology.

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