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Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

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Jun 10, 10

bookshelves: science-fiction
Recommended to Jeff by: James Gunn's 2010 CFSF Summer Intensive
Recommended for: fans of soft science fiction; medical thrillers; gov't cover up stories
Read from May 25 to June 09, 2010, read count: once

There had never been any physical evidence found of how speciation occurred in the human race. Had Neandertals slowly evolved over millennia into Homo Sapiens Sapiens or had evolution jumped directly to the next step in one generation?

Now actual physical evidence had been found in an ice cave in a remote section of the Swiss Alps. That evidence would not only prove that evolution could and would, in stressful times, give birth to the next evolutionary stage but would also give modern humanity the key to unlocking how it could happen again...even as it is, indeed, happening again.

Brilliant molecular biologist Kaye Lang, controversial but intuitive anthropologist Mitch Rafelson, and virus hunter, Christopher Dicken find themselves at the center of what they quickly come to know and embrace as nature taking its evolutionary course, but what the government believes to be a genocidal pandemic unheard of in human history that must be stopped at any cost.

Part medical thriller, part government cover-up mystery, and all science fiction at its most fundamental best (revealing how people handle events and information beyond their control or most vivid imagination), Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio will not disappoint.

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