The author places a level rarely reached the kind of science book.
He first made the point of view of science, by the level, clarity, variety, originality, often the extreme novelty of the scientific facts it relates vividly yet tough and shall make verbatim bibliographical references.
iI also has a keen sense of the history of science of his walk and his spurts, his cruelty, his emotions, his ironies sometimes, rarely of his benevolence: Science has created against the belief that s is not dethrone leave without a fight ..
Finally, there was in this author a literary culture has its legal humanism. She nourish striking citations, including the insights that have had on the most current scientific theories of the ancient sages, philosophers lightning, or dazzling poets.
"On the shoulders of Darwin":
This title paraphrase an image used by great Newton, which is not the author, but the popularized:: we are dwarfs giants shoulders. Continuity of intelligence men. The most recent have more knowledge but not more than talent. ..
A huge chunk of modern science, biology is has since entire perched on Darwin's shoulders, caring and bright colossus.
And the child in me was standing on the shoulders of Ameisen, and come down more, dazzled by the beauty of the world.