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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdom
by Sean B. Carroll
from W. W. Norton & Company

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Sean Carroll has done it again
  This is a fantastic read; informative, yet laid-back enough to make it easy to digest. Carroll has a way of integrating just enough humor to keep you interested, without going overboard. If you're super science-savvy, you may be a bit bored in a few places where he goes over the basics of DNA structure, etc., but the fact that he starts at the bottom makes his books suitable for a much broader audience. If you want a good popular-science style read, this is your book.

• Parsimony of Nature in Action -- As Darwin Stated
  With all of the general intros into contemporary genetics and significance of mutant changes, it is sometimes difficult to obtain a book that has a specific hook incorporating a really unique theme in Evolution. Here we are over 150 years on and Darwin is still teaching us new and wonderful things in the guise of evolutionary development.
  In this book the new science of evolutionary development biology is explained as one of the core understandings of how natural selection actually works.
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• Super info - ok writing
  This book is so full of interesting, amazing information - but the writing is very, very dry. I loved "Your Inner Fish" which overlaps the content of this book, but is much more engaging.

• Interesting reading
  This is an interesting take on evo-devo. I'd recommend it for the popular science reader (its stays in pretty shallow waters scientifically).

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