The Genetic Book of the Dead. A Darwinian Reverie

From the most renowned living biologist, a new way of looking at organisms : reading them as documents describing vanished worlds. In this gripping and accessible exploration of the power of Darwinian evolution, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour and genes of every living creature can be read as a book - an archive of the worlds and environments of its ancestors. A future zoologist will be able to decode the ancestral history of any unknown animal, to read its unique 'book of the dead'.
Such readings are already showing how diverse animals adapt to their environments and develop stunningly similar ways of solving life's problems.