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Rob Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution

By: Rob Newman
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In this witty, fact-packed A-Z, Newman takes the listener on a whirlwind tour from caring, sharing vampire bats to intelligent slime mould; from pacifist baboons to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman; from the invisibility cloak of the Hawaiian bobtail squid to Francis "DNA" Crick's belief that life on Earth began with alien spaceships.

The only comedian ever credited in a paper published in the science journal Nature, Newman explores how stunning scientific breakthroughs have turned received ideas of evolution upside down.

Now a BBC Radio 4 comedy series, The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution is based on the stand-up show Robert Newman's New Theory of Evolution.

©2015 Phil McIntyre (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Biological Sciences Biology European Evolution Evolution & Genetics Literary History & Criticism Science World Literature Witty Funny

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"A fascinating and highly original book, the sort you pick up idly and the discover that two hours have gone by." ( The Spectator)
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For those that find nature interesting and enjoy Robert Newmans sense of whimsy then this is an ideal listen!

Robert Newman is both interesting and funny!

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An interesting challenge to some of the orthodoxy around popular understandings of evolution, delivered with insight and a comedic twist.

An entertaining re-examination of evolution though a comic lens

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