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Loading... The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of…by Sean B. Carroll
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com/2008... FlyingSinger | Apr 16, 2009 |   Too technical to listen to. May not every finish. Do not confuse the bioligist Sean B. Carroll with the physicist Sean Carroll. They both write popular science. (  )leeinaustin | Sep 23, 2008 | An extremely readable but nicely dense book of information on DNA, and how the genetic record demonstrates evolution in all its aspects: mutation, selection, population drift, and fitness for survival. (  )erk | Aug 21, 2008 | Very nice book on 'evo-devo'. Carrol is not the best writer out there, but does a good job. But he does have the advantage that he is a researcher in this area, so you get everything first hand. Thought provoking book in that it shows how new forms can come about beyond the DNA only view (Dawkins). Dawkins often leaves out how the DNA actually makes a different being (phenotype) - the answers can be found in Carrol's books. Also shows that evolution is a 'tinkerer' and that there is no clear direction in evolution. 'Whatever works' is evolution's motto. Makes the 'no free lunch' arguments of the IDiots quite off the mark (evolution is not a search!). (  )yapete | May 31, 2008 | Any book with a subsection called "The Second Coming of the Trichromatic Monkeys" is bound to be good. And this book was no disappointment. After reading a number of evolution books over a long period it was exciting to read a completely new set of ideas and evidence based on actual gene sequences. The focus on opsins and color vision was a useful antidote to some of the "just so" stories you occasionally read in evolution books. I could have done without the chapter on why intelligent design is wrong, it seems like a waste of a good scientists time to bother to write about this topic. (  )jasonfurman | May 5, 2008 | 0.082 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0393061639, Hardcover)DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt & innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed—it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is a living chronicle of how the marvelous creatures that inhabit our planet have adapted to its many environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rain forest. In the pages of this highly readable narrative, Sean Carroll guides the general reader on a tour of the massive DNA record of three billion years of evolution to see how the fittest are made. And what a eye-opening tour it is - one featuring immortal genes, fossil genes, and genes that bear the scars of past battles with horrible diseases. This book clinches the case for evolution, beyond any reasonable doubt. 50 illustrations; 8 pages of color. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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