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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries

The Evidence and the People Who Found It

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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries

Auteur(s): Donald R. Prothero
Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
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The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing.

In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In 25 vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of the people who made crucial discoveries, placing each moment in the context of what it represented for the progress of science. He tackles topics like what it means to see evolution in action and the distance between species in space and time, following figures from Darwin to lesser-known researchers as they unlock the mysteries of the fossil record, the earth, and the universe. The book also features the stories of animal species strange and familiar, including humans - and our ties to some of our closest relatives and more distant cousins. Brisk and entertaining while firmly grounded in fundamental science, The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries is a captivating listen for anyone curious about the evidence for evolution and what it means for humanity.

©2020 Donald R. Prothero (P)2020 Tantor Science Sciences biologiques Sciences de la Terre Paléontologie Histoire naturelle Découvertes
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This is a well presented, very clear and understandable description of evolutionary procedures. Love it.

Fascinating and easy to understand

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As I commented in my review of Prothero’s other book I listened to (The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks), I was disappointed there was no PDF accompaniment provided with The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries either).

This time, peeking at the Kindle book preview on Amazon only served to disappoint me. I wanted all those diagrams and photographs included! What possesses publishers to exclude this for the audiobook market is beyond me.

As to the content of the book, I guess I’m not keen on evolutionary biology.

There are some disgusting and creepy aspects of nature. I didn’t like part of Chapter 8 (Nature Is Not Moral), so skipped to the end… though wish I’d done it sooner. I also don’t like insects, so I skipped Chapter 9 (Jury-Rigged Contrivances). Then I skipped Chapter 10 (Vestigial Organs)…

… I think I figured out I don’t like biology at this level of detail. At this point, I began to wonder if I should continue listening… and I skipped part of 12 (Missing Links Found). Then I heard we still have the tail gene. Ew.

Eventually I gave up, and bailed.

To be clear, the book is still good, and if I did want to hear about these things, I’d pick this author.

Here’s the listener’s guide I created for myself (before I bailed). I find this way of organizing my thinking works getter, and it’s a handy reference. As the chapters are well labelled in the audiobook, you can jump between topics easily.

Origins: The Age of Everything
A Warm Little Pond — The Origins of Life (Ch. 17)
Everything Evolves — The Expanding Universe and Cosmic Change (Ch. 1)
The Abyss of Time — Earth’s Immense Age and the Fossil Record (Ch. 2)

Bodies: The Evidence Within
Embryos Tell the Story — Ontogeny and Recapitulation (Ch. 5)
Homology — The Blueprint of Shared Anatomy (Ch. 4)
Jury-Rigged Contrivances — Why Nature Isn’t Perfectly Designed (Ch. 9)
Vestigial Organs — Whales that Walked (Ch. 10)

Fossils: Stories Written in Stone
Amphibians on Land — Crawling Out of the Water (Ch. 11)
Birds with Teeth — The Dinosaur Connection (Ch. 13)
Missing Links Found — Transitional Fossils and Macroevolution (Ch. 12)
The Elephant’s Trunk — The Evolution of Proboscideans (Ch. 16)
The Evolution of Horses — Tracing Equine Adaptations (Ch. 14)
The Giraffe’s Neck — Lamarck, Darwin, and Nerves that Loop (Ch. 15)

Genes: Clues to Creation
Homeotic Mutants — Legs on Their Heads and the Birth of Evo-Devo (Ch. 19)
The Eyes Have It — How Vision Evolved (Ch. 20)
The Genetic Junkyard — Why Most of Our DNA Is Useless (Ch. 18)

Humans: Our Ongoing Experiment
Bones of Our Ancestors — The Human Fossil Record (Ch. 24)
The Ape’s Reflection — What Makes Us Human (Ch. 23)
The Flawed Design — Are Humans Well-Engineered? (Ch. 21)
The Once and Future Human — Are We Still Evolving? (Ch. 25)
The Third Chimpanzee — Our 99 Percent Similarity (Ch. 22)

Evolution: Understanding Change Itself
Biogeography — The Sinking of Noah’s Ark (Ch. 6)
Nature Is Not Moral — The Cruel Wasps and the Struggle for Life (Ch. 8)
The Branching Tree of Life — How Species Are Related (Ch. 7)
Transformation in Real Time — Observing Evolution as It Happens (Ch. 3)


Audiobook version details (as listed in my Audible library):

The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
Written by: Donald R. Prothero
Narrated by: Tom Parks
RELEASE DATE 2020-12-22
FORMAT Unabridged Audiobook
LENGTH 10 hrs and 44 mins
PUBLISHER Tantor Audio

©2020 Donald R. Prothero (P)2020 Tantor

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