France's brightest young scientist lucidly explains the intricacies of the
animal kingdom through the lens of evolutionary biology.
Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the
clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like
the male's penis?
Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations in
Africa, Léo Grasset offers answers to these questions and many more in a book of
post-Darwinian. Complex natural phenomena are explained in simple and at times
comic terms, as Grasset turns evolutionary biology to the burning questions of
the animal kingdom, from why elephants prefer dictators and buffaloes
democracies,