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Title: Evolution
Subtitle: A View from the 21st Century
Author: James A. Shapiro
Narrator: Ira Rosenberg
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-09-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology
Publisher's Summary:
James A. Shapiro's Evolution: A View from the 21st Century proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution. Shapiro demonstrates why traditional views of evolution are inadequate to explain the latest evidence, and presents a compelling alternative. His information and systems-based approach integrates advances in symbiogenesis, epigenetics, and mobile genetic elements, and points toward an emerging synthesis of physical, information, and biological sciences.
Critic Reviews:
"Shapiro has written a stimulating, innovative manuscript that surely Darwin would have liked." (Sidney Altman, Yale University; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1989)
"Based on a long and highly competent personal experience in science and his novel insights into biological functions, the author has reached views of biological evolution that can reveal to a wide, interested readership how the living world co-evolves with the environment through its intrinsic powers." (Werner Arber, Professor Emeritus, University of Basel, Switzerland; Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine, 1978)
Members Reviews:
A Brilliant Modern Look at Evolutionary Biology
Would you listen to Evolution again? Why?
I will be listening to this more than once, as there is a lot of information in here.
What did you like best about this story?
Finally a description of evolutionary biology that take into account the last 20 years of advances in biological research.
What does Ira Rosenberg bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?
An enjoyable voice for sure. However, the real benefit for me was being able to perform menial tasks while listening.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
My reaction was largely relief that the field of evolutionary biology may be moving in a direction where it will finally incorporate recent advances in molecular biology.
Any additional comments?
As an audiobook the content may be a little difficult for those without a background in biology, however a lot of additional content is available on his website. If you are interested in evolutionary biology it is worth the effort of understanding the information in this book. I think far too many people learn about evolutionary biology from authors like Gould and Dawkins only because it is easy and not because it best represents our current understanding of biology.
Much too technical for most listeners
What didnt you like about Ira Rosenbergs performance?
Ira Rosenberg does his best with this very technical material, but too often he doesn't understand the point of what he's reading so he places the emphasis on the wrong word or phrase, which makes the material even harder to follow.
Any additional comments?
This is a very technical book. Even if you know some molecular biology, you are likely to find this a difficult listen. It really is much more suited to being read than listened to, and even then it's challenging. A sample, selected at random: "LINE retrotransposons typically are a few thousand base pairs in length, contain internal transcription signals for RNA polymerase II, and encode two proteins involved in reverse transcription.
