Review of Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth

Cogent exposition of evolution as you might expect of Dawkins and in some places polemical too. Good science thinking must be skeptical and argumentative but the tone in this book is sometimes of a science besieged. Dawkins conveys splendidly the fecundity of evolutionary theory in generating testable hypotheses and lending itself to falsification. And in later chapters he demonstrates the parsimony of evolutionary theory in explaining the relative distance of species. Popper would be pleased.