Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single—celled beginnings to complex human societies

In this rich, wide—ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how selection on “selfish genes” gives rise to complex modes o...