In this illustrated book, Dawkins returns to the territory of The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene and explores the principles of evolutionary history, showing how the body, behaviour and genes ...
Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey near ...
THIS book presents the subject-matter of the Messenger Lectures delivered in 1945 at Cornell University by three geneticists, each outstanding in his own particular field. The lectures were addressed ...