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Award-winning science writer Goldsmith clearly lays out what we currently know about the universe as a whole. Richly illustrated with photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, this book puts the biggest subject of all-the story of the universe as scientists understand it-within the grasp of English-speaking earthlings.

The great evolutionist Mayr elucidates the subtleties of Darwin's thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual heirs-A. R. Wallace, T. H. Huxley, August Weisman, Asa Gray. Mayr has achieved a remarkable distillation of Darwin's scientific thought and his legacy to twentieth-century biology.

Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.