“A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year”“Mr. Mindell is an excellent guide to this complex picture… . [The Network of Life] offers good, solid science and a clear illustration of an emerging perspective that is beginning to pay dividends in our understanding of evolution.”—David P. Barash, Wall Street Journal“Eye-opening analysis… . The heady ideas [in The Network of Life] will change how readers understand some of biology’s most fundamental concepts.” * Publishers Weekly *“A perspective-shifting reconceptualization of evolution.”—Wade Lee-Smith, Library Journal“I am quite sure that Darwin, were he alive today, would embrace this added view of evolution and would be foremost in its supporters… . The book is beautifully written and thought-provoking in myriad ways.”—David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds“There are a number of books on networks in the biological and computer sciences, but none that explore the horizontal connections that Mindell finds so important. A valuable book.” * Choice *“An important book.”—David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer“There are many rewards to reading the book… . The Network of Life is engaging and contains exciting text.”—Arturo Becerra, The Quarterly Review of Biology

David P. Mindell is a senior researcher at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life, which won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Science, and the coeditor of The Theory of Evolution. He is a former professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, director of the UM Museum of Zoology, and dean of science at the California Academy of Sciences.