authors consider: * Basic concepts and principles of biological complexity * Alternative and supplemental principles to Darwinian theory * Building blocks of life: how DNA, RNA, and genes work in single-cell and multi-cellular organisms * Communication within an organism * Detection and perception of the environment * Evolutionary order and disorder and the sometimes fluid relationships between phenotypes and genotypes Working outwards from the molecular level, Genetics and the Logic of Evolution moves its discourse towards a broader sense of life and how organisms live it. Written to be both scientifically rigorous and accessible to the layman, this treatment offers students and practitioners a refreshingly grand tour of the most important generalizations to emerge from recent biological research.