Geneticist Sean Carroll is the acknowledged leader of the exciting new biological field known as "Evo Devo". His groundbreaking book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was published in 2005 to rave reviews ("Carroll emerges as the new, user-friendly public face of evolutionary science in the process" - US News & World Report). His most recent book, Making of the Fittest (winner of the 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award), enhances his reputation as one of our most exciting scientists.

Of all the scientists in the world today, there is no one with whom Charles Darwin would rather spend an evening than Sean Carroll, says Michael Ruse, author of The Evolution-Creation Struggle.

His next book, to be published in February 2009, is Dinosaurs, Ape-Men and Ancient DNA: The Epic Search for the Origin of Species, an account of?some of the most dramatic adventures and important discoveries in two centuries of biological exploration - from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the expeditions making headlines today - and how they gave birth to and nourished the science of evolution.

A charismatic speaker and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Sean B. Carroll welcomes us into the fascinating world of DNA and its role in evolution. His research points to the end of the rancorous, distracting debate over the validity of the theory of evolution. Evolution is a natural law, as unassailable as the theory of gravity.

Evo Devo, the field Carroll has helped develop, represents the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin's theories were merged with the study of genetics. Now the insights of Evo Devo are astonishing the scientific world by showing how a single cell grows into a complex organism.