![]() It is a framework for finally unlocking the deepest mysteries of life with the power of our intellect." "With the Origin of Species, we now have a structure in which we may make sense of the natural world. ![]() But this is almost inconsequential to the overall impact of the book, I still enjoyed it immensely! Fuller's renditions range from exceptional to adequate, with adequate most often being the historical human characterizations. If there's a knock here it's on the portraiture of the art. *You SEE Galeopithecus, and the sphinx-moth, and the Thyacinus without having to visualize it (or Google it!). Keller and Fuller augment Darwin's thesis with pictorial representations that add dimension and clarity to complex concepts and biological references. ![]() Whether you're looking for an introduction, an overview, or a supplemental learning experience, this is an entertaining and enlightening place to start. ![]() And yet the result, in content and form, is highly commendable. The challenge of adapting one of the most lauded publications of science into graphic form must have surely given author Michael Keller and illustrator Nicolle Rager Fuller a few sleepless nights. ".whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." ![]()
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