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Nature the tinkerer

Remember the old story about modern science: knowing more and more about less and less? It’s not true any more. We are living in the age of the great biological synthesis. Both Neil Shubin and Sean B Carroll thrillingly show us how, in the last 10 years, work on fossils, on DNA sequencing and on embryological development have combined to piece together the story of how we got here.