Throwim way leg

Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern Worldby Michael R RosePrinceton University Press288 pages, paperback, US $16.950‐691‐05008‐2In the pidgin English of New Guinea, ‘throwim way leg’ is thrusting your leg forward on the first step of a long and arduous journey. Michael Rose's book, ’ Darwin's Spectre ,’ is similarly a great first step in the long journey from the first publication of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory, to today's debates on all of the implications of evolution for modern science and life. The author's thesis is simple and direct: we are still just beginning to understand the effects of evolution on human nature. Indeed, here are many implications of Darwin's theory left for modern biologists to explore.The ‘nature of human nature’—the topic of the last chapter of the book—is too awesome a place to start with. The first two chapters therefore lay out the background from which the theory of evolution originated, and then describe some of its uses in practice. The book first gives an overview of the intellectual and cultural milieu at the end of the 18th century, the origins of Darwin's ideas in the 19th, and their further development in the 20th century.Darwin's evolutionary theory is perhaps the final development of natural sciences …