Machine generated contents note: What Is Evolution? -- The central-unifying concept of biology -- Was Darwin Right? -- Evolution is a fact -- What Is Natural Selection? -- Design without designer -- What Is Survival Of The Fittest? -- The evolutionary synthesis -- Is Evolution A Random Process? -- Chance and necessity -- What Is A Species? -- Keeping separate -- What Are Chromosomes, Genes And DNA? -- The double helix -- How Do Genes Build Bodies? -- Egg to adult, brain to mind -- What Is Molecular Evolution? -- The molecular clock -- How Did Life Begin? -- A chicken-and-egg question -- What Is The Tree Of Life? -- LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor -- Am I Really A Monkey? -- Biology to culture -- What Does The Fossil Record Tell Us? -- Life has existed on Earth for most of our planet's history -- What Is The Missing Link? -- The story of human ancestors -- Is Intelligence Inherited? -- Individual intelligence depends only partly on genes -- Will Humans Continue To Evolve?

In The Big Questions: Evolution, one of the world\\\'s leading experts, Francisco Ayala, examines key facets of genetics, evolution and cloning. He uses the most up-to-date research to answer the 20 key questions of evolution, and investigate what they tell us about life on Earth. What is evolution? What is natural selection? Is evolution a random process? What are chromosomes, genes and DNA? What is molecular evolution? What is the tree of life? What does the fossil record tell us? Is intelligence inherited? Can I clone myself? Is language a uniquely human attribute? Was Darwin right? What is \\\'survival of the fittest\\\'? What is a species? How do genes build bodies? How did life begin? Am I really a monkey? What is the missing link? Will humans continue to evolve? Where does morality come from? Is Creationism true?