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Journal of Heredity Advance Access published online on February 29, 2008
Journal of Heredity, doi:10.1093/jhered/esm116
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Book Review

Shiny Pebbles on the Beach

Darwinian Detectives, by Norman A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, NY, 2007. xviii + 220 pp, Hardback, $28.00. ISBN 978-0-19-530675-0.

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Although it has been almost 150 years since the "Origin of Species," we have hardly begun to understand how evolution works. This little book makes our ignorance painfully clear.

This is ironic, because the book was written as a kind of primer to bring general readers with some scientific background up to date on the latest advances in evolutionary biology. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Christopher Wills

Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0116


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