Why do cold viruses make you sick, but not too sick? Why doesn’t malaria follow the same course? How do complex creatures evolve when these changes require numerous random mutations? Is there another process involved?

With each turn of the page, new questions arise as though the reader is experiencing decades of scientific dilemma in fast forward. As each page turns, it becomes more obvious the more we know, the less we understand. That’s just one of the many fascinating aspects of this book. Certainly, anyone with an interest in science, biology and medicine will enjoy this book, eating it up like a delicious dessert. But the audience is not that limited. It doesn’t require a scientific background to follow this book as the author does a great job of explaining things in layman’s terms. This book will do for the biology world what Freakonomics has done for the world of statistics. It’s intriguing, fascinating and highly entertaining.