Richard Dawkins's lovely new book is an old-fashioned miscellany of such zoological surprises... Dawkins's true aim, the literary evocation of wonder at the vast and improbable grandeur of nature, is consistently achieved - The Telegraph

A book that will inform, intrigue and fascinate its readers - The TLS

A joyful celebration... [Dawkins'] ability to tell the glorious tale of evolution in action remains unrivalled. - Financial Times

[An] illuminating deep dive into genes, bodies and Darwinian natural selection. Highly readable and brilliantly illustrated - i news

Overflowing with the beauty of nature, the beauty of language, and the beauty of ideas. - Steven Pinker, author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now

Dazzling in originality and scope, with beautiful illustrations, this is a wonderful celebration of the power of natural selection. Richard Dawkins reveals with brilliant clarity the imprint on organisms of their evolutionary past. - Nick Davies, author of Cuckoo: Cheating By Nature

The ingenuity of evolution is infinite, a fact that fascinates Richard Dawkins as much as it fascinated Charles Darwin. Inside each organism he finds rich palimpsests chronicling the history of life itself. - Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything and How Innovation Works

Once again, Richard Dawkins asks us to look at the living world in a totally novel way: Every organism carries, in its genes, a record of the past environments in which its ancestors survived. This brilliant new way of interpreting nature opens our eyes to both the past and the future. - John Krebs, author of Food: A Very Short Introduction and co-author, An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology

Written with typical verve and panache, Richard Dawkins's The Genetic Book of the Dead makes a brilliant
contribution to the public understanding of evolution using our most up-to-date understanding of genetics. It
will enthral, surprise, and challenge you. Read it!

- Jerry A. Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True and Faith Versus Fact

This book is a summation of the ideas of the author who brought us "memes" and "selfish genes". Richard Dawkins's lucid prose will change the way you think about your evolutionary past. - David Haig, author of From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life

The deployment of the conceit of genes looking backward in time is clever and well done. A piece of vivid popular science. - Stephen Stearns, co-author of Evolution: An Introduction

In this stunning book, Richard Dawk