If you suddenly meet a person on the street who has never heard anything about Richard Dawkins, you can safely recommend to this eccentric “The River Coming Out of Eden” - it will be a convenient place to start getting acquainted with Dawkins’s work. In this book, through brilliant metaphors, he elegantly and simply explains the most important concepts of the theory of evolution, and therefore biology in general. The digital river of DNA flows through time from the beginning of life to the present day - and beyond...