An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most
science-phobic reader
Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this
volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay
Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced in the
highly regarded The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and
DNA, now here to explain the fundamentals of the evolution of life on
earth. On the heels of explaining to his planetary leader the
intricacies of human genetics in The Stuff of Life, the intrepid alien
scientist Bloort-183 is charged in this sequel with covering the wider
story of evolution. Using the same storytelling conceit that Plenty
magazine declared so charming that you won't even notice you've absorbed
an entire scientific field and that caused Seed to pick The Stuff of
Life as a best book of 2008, Evolution brilliantly answers Wired's
demand, What's the solution to America's crisis in science education?
More comic books!
Evolution, the most accessible graphic work on this universally
studied subject, takes the reader from earth's primordial soup to the
vestigial structures, like the coccyx and the male nipple, of modern
humans. Once again, the award-winning illustrations of the Cannons
render the complex clear and everything cleverly comedic. And in Hosler,
Evolution has an award-winning biology teacher whose science comics
have earned him a National Science Foundation grant and an interview on
NPR's Morning Edition.
