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FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857994056
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ISBN: 9781857994056
Category: Evolution
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 1996-05-20
Series: Science Masters
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint Of The Orion Publishing Group LTD )
Illustrations: Line drawings 6
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Pages: 224
Pagination: 224 pages, Line drawings 6
Dimensions (mm): 198x129x16mm
Weight: 215g
River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life
The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.
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