Treasure Your Exceptions

This biography provides an understanding of William Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g. the hierarchical thinking of Gould and the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins). Evolutionists may thus, at long last, present a unified front to their creationist opponents. The pressing need for this text is apparent from the high percentages reported not to believe in evolution and the growth of the so-called "intelligent design" movement.

To understand evolutionary biology in the "extraordinary complex" period 1859-1925, we must first understand Bateson

Updates 2008 first edition with a more complete solution to the role of Bateson's mysterious "residue" in speciation

Presents a revised history of the biosciences, of much relevance to recent racial, eugenic, social and gender debates