The Pursuit of Complexity: The utility of biodiversity from an evolutionary perspective

What is usefulness, or utility? What is evolution? What is life? What is biodiversity? This small but densely written book, tackles these questions, looking at what use is biodiversity and does it matter if species die out in a scientific way. The authors answers to the above questions may be surprising. According to him, we have to look at evolution in an entirely new way, seeing within it predictable patterns allowing us to predict the next stages in the evolutionary process. Surprising and provocative, this book will make you think!