About the Book: Genetic Book of the Dead
From one of the worlds great science writers, a book that explores the deepest
principles of evolutionary history..
In this groundbreaking new 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 worlds of its more remote
ancestors: