Evolution Reviews The Tangled Bank: "Radical"

The Tangled Bank gets a three-page review in the latest issue of Evolution, the world's leading journal on evolutionary biology. The reviewers, Judith Bronstein and Peter Reinthal of the University of Arizona, have very kind things to say. Here are a few of the passages that made me smile: Each chapter reads more like a compelling narrative or a first-rate newspaper article than as a (classically, rather dry) textbook. Zimmer is a skilled essayist; he manages to be engaging without being pedantic or condescending...Zimmer’s appealing and provocative writing style should be extremely successful at introducing evolutionary thinking into the nonmajors student population that often avoids sciences in general, and evolutionary biology in particular....Even casual readers will immediately appreciate the eye-catching presentation of The Tangled Bank. Drawings are large, full-color, simple, and well-labeled, and so informative that they have helped keep the verbiage to a minimum. They will be integral to ...