Why Evolution is True

by Jerry Coyne

The writing at the end, when Coyne tries to explain why evolution is a wonderful thing, something to embrace rather than run away from, is really quite beautiful.

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Why Evolution is True

by Jerry Coyne

Other books by Jerry Coyne

Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry Coyne

Speciation by Jerry Coyne

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
by Jerry Coyne

Speciation
by Jerry Coyne

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)