It's Evolution, Stupid!
by Robert Dworkin

The master of popular accounts of evolution returns with another accessible and highly informative tome. This is the follow-up to his best-selling books The Selfish Bastard, The Deaf Hatmaker, and Mounting Miss Impossible. This time around his trademark clarity of prose is marred by a rather confrontational tone and a sense that he is losing patience with his critics.

Chapter titles include "God Is Dead and I Killed Him" and "I'm Not Even Going to Waste My Time Discussing That Charlatan Simon Kay Gelid." After reiterating his stance as a strict neo-Darwinist in the chapter entitled "Why Have a Son When You Could Have Eight Nephews?" Dworkin outlines the thesis that the tendency to disagree with him is an inherited trait that decreases inclusive fitness.

As ever, his gift for the apt comparison will make you see the natural world in a new light. I particularly enjoyed his metaphor of DNA repair enzymes as a computer spell check, with mutagens as the Microsoft Office Assistant. Recommended.