Outdoor Conservation Book Club discussion

I know this is my book club and all but even I am behind!! Working too much and no brainpower left for learning cool things is not helping me at all right now. Anyway I bought this book recently because it was for sale at my local independent book shop, I know the author, it sounds interesting, and we hadn't read anything about evolution too recently.

Here's a blurb from bookshop.org: "A broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives.
Explaining Life through Evolution tells the origin story of life on this planet and how we arrived at the tremendous diversity among organisms that we see around us today.
Prosanta Chakrabarty explains evolution in a concise, accessible, and engaging way, emphasizing the importance of understanding evolution in everyday contemporary life. Weaving his own lived experience among discussions of Darwin and the origins of evolutionary thought, Chakrabarty also covers key concepts to our understanding of our current condition, including mutation; the spectrum of race, sex, gender, and sexuality; the limitations of ancestry tests; and the evolution of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, the virus at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Offering a contemporary update to classic popular evolution books by Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Coyne, and others, Explaining Life through Evolution is not only an illuminating read, but also an essential guide to the kind of scientific literacy that we need in order to face the challenges of our collective future."

Happy reading!!

This looks very interesting.

Many months late but I finished this book! That it took me so long is not a reflection of the book but of my own prioritization skills. I really enjoyed this book. Prosanta Chakrabarty is an excellent writer and communicator, but I already knew this from having met him a few times since he's a professor at LSU. This book is clearly written, well laid out, with plenty of context and sources, and was interesting and informative even to me and my science background. Excellent book!