Richard Dawkins <br/><br/>
River Out of Eden 

 -  Orion Publishing Group, Limited 
 - 224 pages 
<br/><br/> The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information, ' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780227634 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>870978817 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Life Science
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH430 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>575