About the Book: Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
From one of the worlds great science writers, a book that explores the deepest
principles of evolutionary history.
In this groundbreaking approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins
shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as
a book an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert
lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones 'painted on its back. Its
skin can be read as a description of ancient deserts in which its ancestors
survived and, before that, of the