Why Evolution is True

For twenty years, Jerry A. Coyne has taught at the University of Chicago's ecology and evolution department. He focuses primarily on the emergence of new species and is an expert in evolutionary genetics. He frequently contributes to magazines like The New Republic and the Times Literary Supplement.

The evidence, the factual reality of evolution by natural selection, is rarely brought up in any of the current widely publicized disputes regarding creationism and its offshoot "intelligent design." Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have not concentrated on the evidence itself, while espousing the virtues of evolution and reviewing case examples. However, the evidence is extensive, diverse, and wonderful, and it comes from numerous scientific disciplines. Scientists are discovering more and more fossils that represent historical change, such as dinosaurs with feathers and fish with limbs, as well as species splitting into two.

Why Evolution Is True brings together the various threads of recent genetic, paleontological, geological, molecular biological, and anatomical research that show the "indelible mark" of the Darwinian processes. Why Evolution Is True dispels common misconceptions and anxieties about evolution in plain, reader-friendly English, demonstrating that this wonderful process of change has been proven to be a scientific fact.

Author: Jerry A. Coyne

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