How Evolution Really Works
Selection, Chance, and the History of LifeBy Atlas Meyers
Length3h 34m
About this audiobook
How does evolution produce extraordinary adaptations without a plan? Why do some changes spread through a population while others disappear? And why can the same evolutionary processes produce surprisingly different outcomes?
In How Evolution Really Works, Atlas Meyers follows the evidence from a long-running experiment with bacteria to the beaks of Darwin’s finches, the genetic history of stickleback fish, the beginnings of new species, and the fossils that illuminate life’s deep past. Along the way, the book explains what mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and historical contingency actually do—and why none of them alone tells the whole story.
Written as an engaging journey through scientific discoveries rather than a textbook survey, this introduction to evolutionary biology shows how change can be lawful without being predictable, and how life’s history shapes what becomes possible next.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Education and Learning
Length3 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue — The Flask That Changed
2Chapter 1 — The Population Is the Protagonist
3Chapter 2 — Where Differences Come From
4Chapter 3 — The Environment Has No Plan
5Chapter 4 — The Power of Chance
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6Chapter 5 — When History Changes What Is Possible
7Chapter 6 — When One Population Becomes Two
8Chapter 7 — The Anatomy of Possibility
9Chapter 8 — Reading the History of Life
10Chapter 9 — Evolution Has No Finish Line
11Chapter 10 — Evolution Is Happening Now
12Epilogue — A World Still Evolving
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