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Significantly less than 450 years back, all European scholars presumed that the planet earth was the centre of any world that was for the most part a few million miles in degree, and that the planets, sun, and actors all rotated around this centre. Significantly less than 250 years back, they presumed that the world was made essentially in its present state about 6000 years back. Significantly less than 150 years back, the special creation by God of living types was still prominent. The relentless request of the methodical method of inference from experiment and observation, without reference to religious, or governmental specialist has completely changed our view of our origins and relation to the universe, in less than 500 years. Few would dispute that this program has been spectacularly successful, specifically in the twentieth hundred years. This audiobook is about the key role of evolutionary biology in transforming our view of individuals origins and relation to the world, and the impact of this idea on traditional idea and religion. The goal of this audiobook is to expose the overall listener to some of the most important basic findings, ideas, and strategies of evolutionary biology, as it is rolling out because the first publications of Darwin and Wallace about them, over 140 years back. Evolution provides a unifying set of principles for the whole of biology; it also illuminates the connection of human beings to the world and one another. Furthermore, many areas of evolution have functional importance; for example, the rapid evolution of resistance by bacterias to antibiotics and of HIV to antiviral drugs are pressing medical problems.