A modern geneticist revisits Darwin's classic work to offer contemporary examples and modern research that confirm the book's conclusions on evolution
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Steve Jones is the Professor of Genetics at University College London. He regularly appears on British TV and radio, and wrote and presented a hugely successful BBC TV series called <i>In the Blood</i>. His previous books include <i>The Language of Genes</i>, winner of the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize. He lives in London.
in's masterpiece, <i>The Origin of Species</i>, is probably the best-known, least-read book. Un-questionably one of the most important achievements of the millennium, its publication in 1859 caused a sensation, because it forced mankind to see itself as part of the animal world--a notion that hundreds of millions still deny. Darwin's theory of common descent did for biology what Galileo did for astronomy: made it into a single science rather than a collection of unrelated facts. Those facts, however, are now a century and a half old, as are <i>The Origin</i>'s illustrative examples and Victorian prose style. Writing as "Darwin's ghost," the well-known geneticist Steve Jones has drawn on our ever-expanding scientific knowledge and the brilliant logic set out in <i>The Origin</i> to restate evolution's case for the twenty-first century.<br> <br>Jones has been called "the British Carl Sagan" because of his prominen
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