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Charles Darwin’s revolutionary idea that life evolves primarily through natural selection, preserved and passed on over generations through what were later discovered to be genes, continues to spawn a wide gamut of popular science literature.

Most of these are a defence of Darwin’s essential principles by the likes of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett against the sporadic opposition of movements such as Creationism and Intelligent Design that posit some element of divine intervention.

But there’s another view by a galaxy of writer-scientists like Stephen Jay Gould, Neil Shubin and Ernst Mayr, who dwell on the evidence of evolution in life forms.

Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, for instance, examines the palaeontological evidence for how our arms are in fact modified versions of the whale’s flippers. Mayr points to a variety of similar evidence, from the commonality of several human systems w