Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.



Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific thinking on the birth of the universe and the solar system, the journey from a single cell all ...