One of the most brilliant scientists of our age gives us his definitive work: a synthesis of his comprehensive vision of life.

Looks at the history of the universe, explaining the succession of steps in the emergence of complexity. This book is a contribution to the dialogue between science and religion, as well as an ambitious, mature statement of the antireductionist agenda of the sciences of complexity, by one of our scientists.

In this title, Carl Zimmer draws together the entire history of evolution, from Darwin's original insights on the voyage of the Beagle, through the modern synthesis , which combined genetics with natural selection, to the Darwinian medicine and the selfish gene of today.

This new edition of Evolution: The History of an Idea has been entirely rewritten to take into account the work of historians and scientists since the book's original publication in 1983. It provides a history of evolutionary thought.