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How Life Evolved
Follow explanations of evolution, inheritance, DNA, and cellular life from foundational arguments to later discoveries and debates.
Books in this collection
The Origin of Species
Why do species resemble one another yet fit different conditions? This audio summary follows Darwin’s case from domesticated variation and population struggle to natural selection, then tests it against instinct, hybrid sterility, fossils, geography, classification, embryology, and rudimentary organs. It shows how common descent can explain both adaptation and imperfection.
The Blind Watchmaker
How can living things look engineered if no engineer designed them? Richard Dawkins traces cumulative natural selection from inherited variation and viable intermediates to genes, origins, arms races, development, and common descent, showing how blind processes can produce adaptive complexity and offering a framework for judging rival explanations.
