Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World - Michael R. Rose - Google Books

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Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago--Charles…