With the smoothness and encouragement that mark his writing, Nye suggests that вЂњhe only way to get the answers is to keep looking at living things and learning more about the process by which we all came to be.вЂќ In addition to Darwin, the author examines the contributions of a host of scientists from a variety of disciplines, including biology, geology and genetics. While he has no trouble sinking his teeth into the creationists and anti-evolution activists, Nye really takes flight when he is trying to puzzle out how we get here from there or considering the strangeness of sexual selection (вЂњConsider the peacock, the epitome of costly signalingвЂќ). What happens to other species also happens to usвЂќ-and he takes very seriously the problems posed by introducing creationism to school curriculums around the country. вЂњScience is the way we know nature and our place within it,вЂќ writes Nye, who is open-minded and curious but also someone who likes the best explanations devised by the human project: вЂњIn science, a hypothesis should not only explain the evidence we have found,вЂќ he writes, вЂњit should also make predictions about things not yet discovered.Science is inherently work in progress.вЂќ What kind of evidence do we have about evolution what kind of dynamic thinking, informed by all we have experienced, can we bring to its understanding? What method of inquiry allows us to advance our understanding? Nye neatly deconstructs the arguments against evolution, from basic mistakes of biology and physics to more cosmological concerns-that the naysayers вЂњavoid the exploration of evolution because it reminds us all that humankind may not be that special in natureвЂ™s scheme.

A sweeping tour of the mechanics of evolution from the Science Guy.

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