Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution's Deepest Logic-and Putting It to Use

An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish.

Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical students and high school biology teachers, not to mention the rest of us. In Force of Nature, pro...