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Title: Do you *really* understand evolution by natural selection?
Review: It's amazing how few people, including staunch advocates of evolution, really understand the mechanisms of Darwin's theory of evolution. Dawkins recognizes this, and devotes this book to explaining the theory in a way that helps the reader relate to the vast timescales and processes involved, and attempts to reduce terse scientific jargon to understandable concepts. He does this remarkably well, and even those who thought they had evolution and natural selection down pat may come away with a more personal understanding. One of the most interesting aspects of the book is the accompaning software, which allows the user to experiment with 'biomorphs' that breed, mutate, and evolve based on the 'artificial selection' of the user. In this way, the reader can test some of the theories for themselves, bringing the conceps to life in a way that few books on the subject have done
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