Re: [asa] Recommendation for a book on evolution?

On Dec 13, 2007 1:19 PM, Mountainwoman <hrc54@alltel.net> wrote:

> My request to the list is for recommendations for one recent mass
> market book that makes the scientific case for evolution. Any suggestions?
>

I can't recommend highly enough the book "Darwin in the Genome" by Lynn
Caporale.

It talks about cutting edge ideas about the strategies that have evolved
during evolution. For me, it removed all the doubts I had about the
scientific plausibility of evolution that had been raised (and had me for
some time convinced) by ID/Creationist advocates. Furthermore the book is
graciously and beautifully written by a writer who at the start states that
she has no quarrels with religion, and is purely interested in the science.
You won't find any axes being ground here.

I would have also to say that the level of detail is at times overwhelming,
and one is reading someone who has a passion for her subject and
occasionally gets carried away while the reader's eyes glaze over. But I
think that's no bad thing. Enthusiasm because it is enthusiasm for your
subject is great, and far more acceptable than enthusiasm because you want
to prove the other person wrong.

BTW I only found this book because I have Google gmail, which scans the
emails you receive and uses artificial intelligence techniques to find
matches to unobtrusive text-based adverts that are relevant to the email
that you received. Because it's just text and not some annoying flashing
image, you don't get irritated by it, and are more likely to respond. It
worked for me, and Lynn Caporale sold one more copy of her book as a result,

Best wishes,
Iain

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Received on Thu Dec 13 18:34:07 2007