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Demonstration of the power of the theory of natural selection which shows how Darwin's great idea transformed and illuminated traditional views of our place in the universe. Dennett lays out the current controversies in the field: about the origin of life, punctuated equilibrium, sociobiology, the evolution of language and culture, and evolutionary ethics, and exposes the philosophical, even religious, yearnings that have distorted disputes. He also argues, controversially, that many of today's most eminent scientists, including Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose, have been ultimately unable to accept the power of Darwin's idea.
`A surpassingly brilliant book. Where creative, it lifts the reader to new intellectual heights. Where critical, it is devastating', Richard Dawkins