"The Greatest Show On Earth" by Richard Dawkins is excellent but there are two books about evolution that are much better.
Amazon: "Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin
Amazon: "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne
An interesting thing about "Your Inner Fish" - Neil Shubin never once mentioned the existence of evolution deniers, aka uneducated morons. He just assumes they don't exist or don't matter because they're fucking retards. That's the way it should be.
The University of Chicago, Biological Sciences: "Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin (This website has lots of information about the Tiktaalik fossils.)
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.
In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Best two books about evolution
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