Do you want to understand how the Theory of Evolution evolved? This is the book. Michael Ruse is a great story teller, and he guides us throughout the debates, allowing us a glimpse on how these discussions propel the idea forward, becoming what it has become today. As Edward O. Wilson says on the preface to the 1st edition of this book, "Let me put my endorsement another way. Suppose I were told that all my memory of the evolution controversies, from Darwin's time forward, were to be erased an hour hence, and, before this calamity (there have been times I would have thought it a blessing) I were allowed to choose a book to begin my reeducation. I would select, and therefore here recommend, for clarity and good humor as well as substance, The Evolution Wars."