THREAD OF LIFE: The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution

by Roger Lewin

Traces the origin and development of plants and animals, recounts how Darwin worked out the theory of evolution, and reviews modern discoveries related to evolutionary theory

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Nature, Evolution, Reference

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books.

Lewin was a staff member of New Scientist in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for Science for ten years as News Editor. An example article was "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire", 21, November 1980, vol. 210, pp 883–887. Lewin wrote three books with Richard Leakey. He became a full-time freelance writer in 1989 and concentrated on writing books. In 1989 Roger Lewin won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books for Bones of Contention.


In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with wife Birute Regine for business consulting. Together they wrote, The Soul at Work: Unleashing the Power of Complexity Science for Business Success, Orion Business Books (1999), republished as Weaving Complexity & Business: Engaging the Soul at Work, Texere (2000). He is a member of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Been on my bookshelf ever since it came out, and while I've looked through the nice pictures a number of times I've never actually read it. Finally moving to my OBE shelf, as it is very much a product of the '80s now, both in terms of its mid-level print production and the fact that there are just so many advances in evolutionary science since this first came out. Probably a good candidate for our massive used book store next time I need the shelf space…