ABSTRACT
There is a revolution under way in biology. It is giving rise to a new vision of life in general, of human beings in particular, and a new way of understanding why people behave as they do. Rather, all bodies are the product of genes, and it is they—the genes—that are evolution's legacy to every person, made corporeal in all those bodies that people world. "The theory of evolution" has weathered test after test, emerging from each challenge refined and strengthened. Thus, evolutionary theory is to biology what atomic theory is to chemistry, or number theory to mathematics, or gravitational theory to astronomy: as close to fact as science is likely to get. At the core of revolutionary biology is a new perception of the relationship of bodies and genes. Biology's revolution has shown, however, that the face who stares back from the mirror is only indirectly the handiwork of evolution.
