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"Half essay collection, half encyclopedia, it's packed with everything you'll ever want or need to know about the science of evolution."
--Zelda Roland, Wired

"Harvard's blockbuster contribution to the Darwin anniversary is a substantial work at almost a thousand pages."
--London Review of Books

"Evolution: The First Four Billion Years is as equally inviting and particularly timely in this bicentennial year of the birth of Charles Darwin and the ever-bubbling controversy with advocates of a creationist explanation for the mysteries of biology...The 16 explaining essays, followed by the second encyclopedic section offer the reader an easily and enjoyable access to what the fuss is all about and why it is important to get one's own opinions based on reality. Life, after all, is too important."
--James Srodes, Washington Times