"[Jolly's] method is to offer a host of lively facts to grip the imagination..Her book is full of wry, ironic humour, as well as knowledgeable remarks about the way science works...She has pulled off the most elegant of scientific popularisation tricks: being light without being lightweight." - Adrian Barnett, New Scientist "[A] charming, eclectic and sensible book...[Jolly's] genius in this informative, satisfying book is to strip away dogma and politics that have shrouded evolution, to reveal a theory Darwin would recognize as his own. 'There is grandeur in this view of life,' he wrote, and here it is seen marvelously." - Ellen Ruppel Shell, New York Times Book Review"
