Jerry Coyne's work delves into ecological and evolutionary genetics, with a particular focus on speciation, especially as it relates to fruit flies. His writings, appearing in both prestigious scientific journals and mainstream publications, explore complex topics such as population genetics, evolutionary mechanisms, and the intricacies of sperm competition. Coyne offers readers profound insights into the processes driving evolution and the formation of new species. His accessible style makes challenging scientific ideas understandable to a broad audience.
-A superbly argued book.- --Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In this provocative book, evolutiona
Religion and science compete in many ways to describe reality, they both make existence claims about what is real but they use different tools to meet this goal. In this book, the author lays details why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion including faith, dogma and revelation.
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Presents the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the indelible stamp of the evolutionary processes first proposed by Darwin.