WHO doubts that of any science, evolution is the best at combining curiosity with admiration? Who can fail to be impressed by the realisation that the human body is a walking, talking monument to evolution; a palimpsest of all our ancestors from bacteria to fish to ape? Yet what should be an epic story has somehow failed to capture the popular imagination. Why else does a significant proportion of the world’s population – by no means all of whom live in the US – flatly disbelieve in evolution?
In a book that unpacks the history in our bones, Neil Shubin, a distinguished…
