The River Emerging from Eden

How can the German term Bauplan, understood as "the fundamental plan of a structure", lead zoologists to serious mistakes? Who is "mitochondrial Eve" and why, according to Dawkins, is there more poetry in her than in her mythological namesake? How and why did the famous "waggle dance" evolve? And why, after all, does creationism continue to possess such irresistible appeal and are there any arguments capable of convincing hardened creationists? In this book, first published in 1995, the legendary scientist and science communicator Richard Dawkins once again sets out to demonstrate how poetic the scientific worldview can be, based on Darwin's theory of evolution.