Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Books and Arts
Nature 447, 533 (31 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447533a; Published online 30 May 2007
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Direct Molecular Detection of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to protein and nucleic acid detection. This is an Id...
-
Novel Approaches to Protecting Maize from Insect Damage
The Seeker is looking for novel approaches to protecting maize from insect damage. This Challenge re...
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Gastroenterology Fellowship Position - Research Track
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Texas, USA
Apply for PhD Program
- Shinshu University
- Ueda, Nagano 386-8567 Japan
Selling evolution
Mark Pagel1
BOOK REVIEWED-Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
by David Sloan Wilson
Delacorte Press: 2007. 400 pp. $24
Evolutionary biologists — those enthusiastic foot-soldiers of Darwin's grand notion that life evolves by a process of descent with modification — cannot understand why so many people reject the great man's theory, and often in favour of some form of creationist account of the existence and diversity of life on Earth. In the opening pages of David Sloan Wilson's new popular-science book, hopefully entitled Evolution for Everyone, we discover that 54% of adults in the United States prefer to believe that humans did not evolve from some earlier species.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
