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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 576.82
EAN: 9780345422774
ISBN: 0345422775
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 377
Publication Date: April 03, 2001
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 03, 2001
Sales Rank: 92561
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Rating:  - Too frequently inaccurate to be trusted
I have just reached page 93 of the hardcover edition of this book and have decided, with reluctance, not to read any further. I was hoping that I would find interesting, modern evidence to complement Darwin's evidence, and I am sure that there is much such evidence present. In fact, much of what I read was indeed very interesting. However, as a scientist (in a different field) with a good eye for nonsense, I have found so many questionable statements that I can no longer trust the author as a guide ... Read More
Rating: - Ruined by Subtitle?
Unfortunately, this is not an update to "Origin of the Species," but a layperson's "guide" to developments in evolution biology. Darwin's own revisions and updates to Origin of Species, turned out to often be wrong. But he was a very good writer, and I was looking forward to an actual "update" (specifically of the first edition). To claim to be an update of such a historic work, and then present (apparently randomly) some odds and ends of the newer findings in evolution was, for me, unforgivable.
Rating:  - Evolution is not a fact
From the library review above it says, "...so that the fact of organic evolution...". Wow, so it's a fact now. Wow where is this evidence that makes it a fact? Get real and stop the disgusting money-stealing life-destroying propaganda.
Rating: - Not a good read.
I tend to agree with criticism presented in previous reviews.
I found "Darwin's Ghost" (my first attempt to learn more about Darwin and recent progress on his evolution theory) rather difficult to read. Certain fragments are very interesting and even shocking to the layman (just for example: Earth's history, details about bacterias, ants, bees and behavior of cuckoos and other birds/animals). And OK, I understand: there is no charity in Nature, everything comes down to DNA, its mobility, exchange, ... Read More
Rating: - Dissapointing! Darwin's ghost must be feeling very uneasy...
I expected to find an easy and enjoyable introduction to Darwin's original. I ended up reading only the extracts from Darwin's original. How much more rationally structured and carefully exposed were Darwin's ideas and how sad the contrast with Jones' clumsy arguments and unstructured accumulation of examples. I needed no convinving about evolution against creationism. I was looking though for an adequate exposition of the alternative theories of evolution. Jones takes adaptionist/genetically-determined ... Read More
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