Evolution. Triumph of the idea

One of the best scientific journalists of our time with its characteristic thoroughness, intelligence and unchanged humor gives a complete overview of the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin in the light of today"s ideas. What stood behind the ideas of a great man who painfully paved the way for new knowledge in a conservative society? Why to this day, disputes about the origin of life and man on Earth do not stop? How do evolutionary biologists put forward and check their hypotheses and why can not categorically agree with the arguments of creationists? In search of an answer to these questions, the reader makes many amazing discoveries about the life of animals, birds and insects that make you think about human morals and ethics, about the place and purpose of man in the universe