REVIEW: "An infinite number of the most beautiful forms," ​​Sean Carroll

We are all a bit of Drosophila. We have fruit flies with 29,000 common genes. As it turned out, what do we do with this information and why we do when there is no compound eyes, tells Book Sean Carroll (Sean Carroll) «An infinite number of the most beautiful forms," ​​which was published by Corpus.

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Since then, as in 1859 he published a book of Charles Darwin (Charles Darwin) the origin of species, evolution has become one of the most debated topics in science. And the more there is evidence of the theory, the more and refutations.

However, for most of the knowledge about the evolution of limited general school biology course and jokes about the origin of the monkeys. Including because until recently scientists themselves could not explain how it is the development of each type, in spite of all the evidence. At the very least, could not explain available.

It makes no sense to discuss with those who will attack the theory of evolution. We have the fossils. We won.

Lewis Black (Lewis Black), comedian

Meanwhile, evidence of the theory of evolution are growing and multiplying. Based on embryo research, the study of fossils and molecular genetics has grown a new branch of science. A discipline that emerged from the combination of embryology and evolutionary biology, - evo-devo. It deals with a comparative analysis of genes of different species of animals. In fact, studies the evolution at the DNA level.

That's about it, or more precisely about what questions answered evo-devo, and tells Sean Carroll.

"An infinite number of the most beautiful forms" - a book for pochemuchek. If we are genetically so similar to other animals, why different? As the embryo developing from two cells, understands where he build his feet, and where - the head? And the age-old question: where to find the intermediate forms of species and why we do not see how evolution works now?

To answer these questions in the review does not make sense, read better, writes the author shows.

The material of the book resembles a textbook on general biology for high school in many ways: provides information on it the evolution of life, beginning with speciation in different geological periods and ending with new hypotheses to embryology. But all the information connected by a chain of DNA, so the picture of the development of all life turns solid, logical, and not-cut on the head, as in the old textbook.

The author compares the genes work mechanism with the navigator work that draws analogies between the genome and the dark matter to the reader with the most superficial knowledge of all branches of science can be understood as the same happened evolution.

Who and why read this book?

Man - the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and which he can not escape.

Fromm (Erich Fromm)

Probably read to all who at least sometimes wondered how could evolve life, and who are interested in news in the field of science.

"An infinite number of the most beautiful forms," ​​Sean Carroll

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