I can't tell whether the problem is the translation or the original, but awkward sentences keep cropping up. Perhaps that's why the author seems to ramble. (That often happens with translations of academic works: the translator doesn't know what they're translating.) The original title is Flaws of Nature. Explaining it with technical knowledge also makes parts of the book tedious. Reviews saying it's engrossing or recommending it to young children are clearly book advertisements. I should have

I've become interested in biology, and this was an engaging read.

Flaws of Nature: The title itself caught my eye, but the phrase “Whales Don't Breathe in Water” was even more compelling. I was surprised by something so familiar that I had never even wondered about it: Why can't whales breathe in water? Doesn't evolution move in a better direction? I had assumed it did, but I was amazed to learn that nature can evolve in ways that are inconvenient and cumbersome, even to the point of threatening an organism's life. This is the author's first book, but as a

This book raises new questions about conventional evolutionary theory. It was so interesting and captivating that I don't think there was a dull moment as I read it. Haha. I liked that it covers so many stories, and in the end it also reflects on life through the lens of evolution, giving me a lot to think about. For that reason, I want to recommend it to everyone. 😊

At first, the section was unfamiliar to me and felt a little dull. But when I read it in comparison with people, I found it so interesting that I finished the book in a day. I recommend it! New facts alongside what I already knew made the book fascinating.

I enjoyed reading about the evolution of life through a variety of living things.

It gave me time to turn over the life we've been given in my mind once again. The discussion of human evolution—how far it may continue and how it might end—was an interesting, worthwhile prompt that let me glimpse the author's perspective.

Since learning about Darwin's theory of evolution, I've had many questions about life science and evolution. What attracted me to this book was the idea that evolution in nature is less stable than we think, and that it happened amid instability. The book has 10 chapters: 1. Die or Go Hungry; 2. What Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest; 3. Free Riders; 4. Beautiful and Cursed; 5. The Fate of the Seventh Tooth; 6. Extreme Altruism; 7. Cruel Compromise; 8. Evolution Trapped; 9. A Pretty Good Weakness;

Between four and a half and four billion years ago, molecules with unusual properties appeared. All they did was make copies of themselves, producing descendants; they are called replicators. If the first replicator had copied itself perfectly, and each copy had in turn produced another perfect copy forever, there would have been only one type of replicator. With no variation, there would naturally have been no growing complexity either. What actually happened was errors, the diversity that