Rifkin is an internationally-known social thinker who has made it his mission to call out social Darwinism and some of the pitfalls associated with genetic engineering and the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature. Taken it its historicial context, this book provides a window into the anti-genetic engineering sentiment that arose in response to more broad applications of the emerging molecular biology technologies.
A review of evolutionary theory and an attempt to fill in the holes left by Darwin
