One of the best science journalists of our time, with his characteristic thoroughness, clarity and constant humor, provides a complete overview of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in the light of today's ideas. What was behind the ideas of the great man who painfully paved the way for new knowledge in a conservative society? Why do debates about the origin of life and man on Earth continue to this day? How do evolutionary biologists put forward and test their hypotheses, and why can they categorically not agree with the arguments of creationists? In search of an answer to these questions, the reader makes many amazing discoveries about the life of animals, birds and insects, forcing one to think about human morals and ETHICS, about the place and purpose of man in the universe.