Description: A broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives.
Explaining Life through Evolution tells the origin story of life on this planet and how we arrived at the tremendous diversity among organisms that we see around us today.
Prosanta Chakrabarty explains evolution in a concise, accessible, and engaging way, emphasizing the importance of understanding evolution in everyday contemporary life. Weaving his own lived experience among discussions of Darwin and the origins of evolutionary thought, Chakrabarty also covers key concepts to our understanding of our current condition, including mutation; the spectrum of race, sex, gender, and sexuality; the limitations of ancestry tests; and the evolution of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, the virus at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Offering a contemporary update to classic popular evolution books by Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Coyne, and others, Explaining Life through Evolution is not only an illuminating read, but also an essential guide to the kind of scientific literacy that we need in order to face the challenges of our collective future.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Explaining Life Through Evolution
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.3in
Author: Prosanta Chakrabarty
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology / General, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Biology
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
