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Darwinian evolution written during the last decades of the
twentieth century, unless of course …
The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press,
New York (1976)
…this is the best general-purpose book on evolution. The
second edition (published in 1990) has worthwhile addition.
These
statements become steadily more compelling as complexity in-
creases, and the requirememnts for evolution will almost cer-
tainly be present in any living system sufficiently complex to
replicate. That is why a diverse earthly menagerie, including
us and ours, is here to be analyzed.