# River Out of Eden

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- Book: [River Out of Eden](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-dawkins/river-out-of-eden) ([River Out of Eden.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-dawkins/river-out-of-eden.md))
- Authors: [Richard Dawkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-dawkins)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0916-218-6
- Published: 2015-03-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe. A bite-sized science classic, narrated by the author. (p) 1998 Orion Publishing Group