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    <body><![CDATA[This is another interesting work on recent developments in research on biological evolution, and how these discoveries remove any reasonable doubt from the fundamental correctness of evolution as the mechanism of creation -- the evidence is truly overwhelming.  <br/><br/>This book focuses on the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53959960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was a little too technical at times for a lay person. great for someone studying genetics, however, as that is the theme of the book. there were a lot of interesting parts, though, like using DNA and evolutionary theory to help figure out where different human races came from and how skin ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61086100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had great reviews and was required for one of my classes. Even though it raises good questions and has sound arguments, I found it hard to read after a while. Its one of those books that you read couple of chapters at a time and then come back to it later. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sets out to proove evolution and the survival of the fittest is in fact the best theory we have as to how life on this planet became what it is today.  He cosiders creationist myth makers and gives examples, notably the Lysenko disaster in Russia, as to what harm can come if we ignore scie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35154796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a lot of interesting scientific facts about genetics and evolution, but lacks fluidity and good story. Sure, all the chapters have a common theme (DNA and evolution). Yet the book reads like a collection of Scientific American or Nature articles rather than one cohesive story. I almost...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9844991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a biology book, Carroll's <em>Endless Forms Most Beautiful</em> is more detailed and scientific. As a defense of evolution, Dawkins' <em>The Blind Watchmaker</em> is zippier, and has more fluid prose. Nonetheless, this book is full of interesting animals and case studies in evolution, and I fully enjoyed it. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11048122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fresh knowledge has led to the recognition that evolution is more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by by researchers, following a series of discoveriesin various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor faricated, of the resu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6954729">more...</a>]]></body>
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