What Evolution Is

What is evolution? How does it work? And why is it the only plausible mechanism that can account for the remarkable diversity of life on Earth?



Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But, despite more than a century's progress in scientific understanding, there is still widespread confusion about what, exactly, it is.



In What Evolution Is one of the founding fathers of modern biology tell us what we know - and what we don't know - about the subject. In showing how evolution has gone from theory to fact, he explores various controversial fads and fallacies and investigate how this knowledge has affected the way in which we view ourselves and the world.