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A review by cdeane61
Evolution by Stephen Baxter
4.0
When I first picked this up I thought "no way". A 600 page novel about evolution?
Stephen Baxter pulled it off though. Kept me reading, kept me thinking, kept me interested and kept me entertained. What more can one ask for?
I love that he goes beyond our current time with his tale. So often people mistake modern humans as the "end product" of evolution, or can only imagine that the next step for us will be something better, or glorious. But that is not the way of evolution in life or in this novel. There is no story-line that we are evolving to "the next level" only that we are adapting to the environment around us.
Well done.
Stephen Baxter pulled it off though. Kept me reading, kept me thinking, kept me interested and kept me entertained. What more can one ask for?
I love that he goes beyond our current time with his tale. So often people mistake modern humans as the "end product" of evolution, or can only imagine that the next step for us will be something better, or glorious. But that is not the way of evolution in life or in this novel. There is no story-line that we are evolving to "the next level" only that we are adapting to the environment around us.
Well done.