From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds. A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Science • Named Science Book of the Year by Times (UK) • A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2024 “Intellectually sparkling and beautifully crafted.”—Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street Journal “A glorious affair. . . . Arguably [Dawkins’s] most joyous ode to the wonders that evolution has wrought in the animal world.”—Phi...