In this magnificently illustrated book, Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures. From the underwater life of Indonesia's Lambeh Strait to a little valley in northern Israel, to an earthquake in the coral reef off the island of Yap and the dry valleys of western Mongolia, Wills demonstrates how ecology and evolution have interacted to yield the world we live in. Each chapter features a different location and brings out a different and important message. With the author's own stunning photographs of the wildlife he discovered on his travels, he draws out the evolutionary stories behind the wildlife and shows how our understanding of the living world can be deepened by a Darwinian perspective. Wills demonstrates how looking at the world with evolutionary eyes leaves us with a renewed sense of wonder about life's astounding present-day diversity, along with an appreciation of our evolutionary history.

著者のクリストファー・ウィルズは、生命の連鎖を解き明かす賢者の視点を持っています。本作の真髄は、辺境の絶景をダーウィン的進化論という糸で縫い合わせる知的なダイナミズムにあります。読者は精緻な筆致を通じて、風景の奥に潜む数億年の生命のドラマを目撃するでしょう。 映像版では大自然の躍動が視覚的に補完されますが、原作本の魅力はその思考の深淵にあります。映像が映す美しさを、書籍は論理と洞察で血肉化し、想像力を極限まで広げてくれます。両メディアを横断することで、世界の多様性が壮大な歴史の産物であるという真理に触れ、魂が震える感動を味わえるはずです。