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The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: River Out of Eden
• Author: Richard Dawkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781780226897
• ISBN: 1780226896
• ID: 05093960
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 196 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 129 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2015

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