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Homo Evolutis (2011)

by Juan Enriquez(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

TEDBooks

review 1: As far as scientific books on extremely complicated subjects go, this book is excellent. It gives a good and comprehensible introduction about evolution, its possibilities, its future and man-made interventions in the process. Yet there are two major problems with this publication:The writers' style which, I guess, is supposed to mimic the style of the original TED presentation on which the whole book is based. In a presentation using short sentences mixed with multimedia and occasional jokes can be great to engage the audience, however using the same method in a book, albeit digital, can be very frustrating and it makes really hard to engage with the argument.There is also a problem with the content: the book starts by giving the impression that humans have already specia... moreted and that the following chapters would prove this thesis. But in fact what the book does is presenting evidence that human evolution is possible and necessary. I am not saying that the information and argument presented are not valuable, but I think that the authors did themselves a disservice by deceiving their audience and raising their expectations instead of preparing them to appreciate the really valuable, though poorly presented, content.
review 2: While addressing a very important topic related to genetics, explanations are a little too brief even considering this is an eBook. A follow up of this very rough walk through is absolutely needed to dig deeper into the really interesting topics.Its huge spaces between sentences make it easy to read, adding to the fast-paced writing style Enriquez has, even though it also contributes to the feeling in the end that very little has been added from the TED talk that also deals with this concept. less

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