Perspectives on Selection: From Greenish Warblers and Meaningless Complexity to Naked Mole-rats and Mutating Humanity

The “main character” of this book is natural selection. Does it still hold any surprises for biologists? What evolutionary processes are occuring in contemporary human populations? Is the threat of humanity’s intellectual degradation a myth or a scientific fact? Following the success of their previous book, “Evolution: Classic Ideas in Light of New Discoveries,” the prominent scientists and science communicators Alexander Markov and Elena Naimark continue to share the most intriguing discoveries of evolutionary biology with their readers.

Moscow: CORPUS, 2019.