Finally, those not familiar with Wilson's previous work should start reading Evolution for Everyone immediately so that they will be able to appreciate the excitement and be well prepared to join the many animated discussions that The Neighborhood Project will no doubt provoke!
James Heron San Francisco, Nov. 15, 2009 To the Editor: Many questions came to mind as I read "The Evolution of the God Gene".
In the succeeding weeks, I read the evolution of this extraordinary dinner party, attended by famous women from history, including Pope Joan and Bruegel's Dulle Griet.
Many pupils cannot join trips, wear ordinary school uniforms, read novels, do drama, study evolution or human procreation.
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Now it is not very hard to find out, if you spend a little while reading in evolution, that Gould is the John Kenneth Galbraith of his subject.
He says he "wandered off" from the Baptist faith he was brought up in, much as Darwin gave up his Christian faith, but with far less angst, and began reading about evolution as a teenager.
The text accompanying this painting reads: "The evolution of Zelda Fitzgerald--from high-living, unstable wife of Scott to frustrated-feminist icon--may undergo further revision, to accomplished minor artist, with the publication this month of "Zelda: An Illustrated Life" (Abrams).
Remarkably, the examples in the book are so thorough that even an evolutionary biologist will likely learn something new from reading Why Evolution Is True.
