"Coyne's knowledge of evolutionary biology is prodigious, his deployment of it as masterful as his touch is light." -Richard Dawkins

In the current debate about creationism and intelligent design, there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence. Yet the proof of evolution by natural selection is vast, varied, and magnificent. In this succinct and accessible summary of the facts supporting the theory of natural selection, Jerry A. Coyne dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution and clearly confirms the scientific truth that supports this amazing process of change. Weaving together the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the "indelible stamp" of the processes first proposed by Darwin, Why Evolution Is True does not aim to prove creationism wrong. Rather, by using irrefutable evidence, it sets out to prove evolution right.

傑裏·A.科因（Jerry A. Coyne）

曾於哈佛大學隨理查德·萊旺庭（Richard Lewontin）和斯蒂芬·傑伊·古爾德（Stephen Jay Gould）學習，過去二十年中一直任芝加哥大學生態與演化學係教授，從事演化遺傳學的研究。科因教授是世界頂尖的演化生物學傢之一，也是演化界最重要的公共知識分子之一，為《新共和》、《泰晤士報文學增刊》、美國國傢公共電颱的固定撰稿人。