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Nature 447, 1055-1056 (28 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/4471055a; Published online 27 June 2007

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Falling over the edge

Kenneth R. Miller1

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Claims that an intelligent designer is needed to explain evolution of complex systems are deeply flawed.

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism

by Michael Behe

Free Press: 2007. 336 pp. $28

Michael Behe's new book, The Edge of Evolution, is an attempt to give the intelligent-design movement a bit of badly needed scientific support. After a spectacular setback in the 2005 Dover, Pennsylvania, intelligent-design trial (Nature 439, 6–7; doi:10.1038/439006b 2006