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Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
by Daniel J. Fairbanks
from Prometheus Books

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Reclaiming the reluctant
  The focus of resistance to Charles Darwin's "dangerous idea" was, and remains, the place of the human species. Even in Darwin's time, most educated people could perceive how natural selection solved many of the issues of life Nature posed. Humans, however, were excluded from the process in the minds of some. The thought of humanity emerging from the African continent millions of years ago stuck in the craw of those who wanted our species to be something special. That reluctance to accept the human heritage... more info

• Overwhelming evidence for both common descent and natural selection
  Creationists, including ID-creationists, sometimes claim that recent discoveries in biology pose enormous problems for Darwinism; but Fairbanks shows that the latest DNA evidence actually provides overwhelming confirmation for two of the most important aspects of Darwinian evolution: common descent and natural selection.
  What's more, as if to goad the creationists, Fairbanks focuses primarily on the one species that creationists care about the most: homo sapiens.
  Regarding common descent,... more info

• Simple, consice, amazin
  I took a class from the author and came across this book a few years after and was immediately taken to it. I could not put the book down. He explained all the ideas very simply yet was also able to really nail the ideas as well. I would recommend this book to anybody looking for a book about evidence of evolution in our DNA. Great read.

• A superb book that makes a good but not great case for evolution.
  I just bought relics of Eden yesterday and was surprised at how quickly I was able to go through the book and how its interesting its been. So far I've gotten up to page 50 and appreciate how the author has taken a fairly complex topic,molecular markers for evolution, and presented it so well to an educated lay audience.
  The books is good but I don't think its great. What the author does is that he likens our DNA to a messy storage attic which may have some useful items but tends to filled with "junk".... more info

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