Almost Like A Whale: The Origin Of The Species Updated

Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's 'The Origin Of Species'. Before that, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of evolution, the grammar of the living world. Darwin used the biology of the nineteenth century to prove his case. Now that science has been revolutionised, his case can be reargued using the twentieth century's astonishing advances.

From AIDS to dinosaurs, from conservation to cloned sheep, bursting with anecdotes, jokes and irresistible facts, this is a popular account of the science that makes biology make sense.