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Why Evolution is True

Disciplines:
popular science
atheism
evolutionary biology
science/scientific argument

Summary

Jerry Coyne's 2009 book presenting the evidence for evolution by natural selection across multiple domains — fossil record, genetics, biogeography, vestigial structures — as the most comprehensive popular science case for evolution.

Core Contribution

Provides the most comprehensive and readable single-volume case for evolution by natural selection — assembling the evidence from eight independent scientific domains into a convergent argument that makes evolution as well-evidenced as any fact in science.

Historical Influences

Jerry Coyne

Intellectual Lineage

Popular Science Writing Evolutionary Biology New Atheism

Allied Works

The Selfish Gene The Greatest Show on Earth The Blind Watchmaker

Contemporaries & Peers

The Greatest Show on Earth Evolution: What the Fossils Say Your Inner Fish

Minds Influenced

Science education Popular evolution literatureAtheist intellectual community

Intellectual Posterity

Why Evolution is True

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