On the Likely Origin of Species

Einstein once famously proclaimed: "Make things as simple as you possibly can, but no simpler."This book is an attempt to do precisely that, and in the process to take lay readers on a voyage all the way from the Big Bang to the human species.In doing so, it avoids both the simplistic neo-Darwinian idea that everything happens by pure chance and the unscientific notion that if we want to know how ...