`Why life?' Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how' question to scientists. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having 'thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries'. Evolutionary genetics - the subject of this book - sends the individual crashing.
The Biologists Dream.- Waiting for Darwin.- The Darwinian Paradigm.- Population and Ecological Genetics.- The Key to Genes.- Conflict and Cooperation.- Eros and Thanatos Revisited.- What Can Be Done, What Can’t Be Done.