Book Review by Jose Gaudier, MD

Of all the great ideas of science, Evolution has been scrutinized more than any other. There is overwhelming evidence to support it, and lack of any scientific data against  evolution. Despite this, however, fundamentalist religious groups, guided more by misconceptions rather than their faith, promote limitations on the teaching of this the most important idea on biological sciences.

Finally we have  a book that any Christian can read, and the author helps them to understand that Evolution ranks highest among the most clever ideas that God ever had. Author Karl Giberson, a Christian with a fundamentalist background, dissects and explains all the important data on Evolution while sharply rebuking questions raised by the creationist/Intelligent design movement in a definitive way.

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Book Review by Jose Gaudier, MD

At a time that I was getting myself organized to review the topic of genetics and get more acquainted with some of the new information, this book suddenly appeared. It is a simple but fairly comprehensive book on one of the most amazing discoveries of the last 150 years.

The history of life, DNA and the mapping of our genome is related through 23 chapters. Each chapter presents a story corresponding to each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

We know that each chromosome has thousands of genes and a comprehensive review of all the available data would lead to an encyclopedia-sized book too boring to read. Instead the author selects one important aspect of each chromosome to present.  Examples include the importance of genes to life, fate, memory, sex, evolution, instincts, and many other aspects  of nature.

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