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In the movie "Jurassic
Park," the start of the demonstration tour is begun with the computer
center boss exclaiming "hold onto your butts!" Readers of
McFadden's powerful thesis, Quantum Evolution, should be
similarly advised. This is no idle Oprah book, but a powerful blend of the
most important and well-substantiated theories in science. Evolutionary
mechanisms happen at the microscopic--indeed, molecular--level, concerning
genes. It is precisely on this level that quantum phenomena occur. That is
why, McFadden claims, that evolution must be discussed as a quantum event.
It takes guts and extraordinary familiarity with
biology and physics to put a volume like this together. McFadden succeeds
brilliantly in making sense of the two sciences, how they must blend, and
how e can apply quantum theory to larger biological issues. Alas, quantum
mechanics can only be described in understandable English to a point.
McFadden takes us to that point, then may loose many readers in the
unfathomable and unimaginable realities of the quantum universe. No
matter, there is great brain food here that every biologist should sample.
Warning: After reading this book, you may
be compelled to start reading everything you can about quantum mechanics.
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