The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Richard Dawkins

Science

Dawkins develops the idea that an animal's body and genome are like a description of the ancestral environments in which its lineage evolved, readable in principle by a sufficiently knowledgeable future scientist. He surveys adaptations, camouflage, and convergent evolution as evidence written into living organisms. The book is illustrated by Jana Lenzova and published by Yale University Press.