Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

An extremely interesting book that isn't written very well. Made worse by the fact that the Kindle edition is terribly put together. There are lots of diagrams with tiny text that Kindle completely shits the bed on, as well as page-inserts which are referenced in the text, but show up 100+ pages later.

But despite these issues, and that Carroll doesn't seem to know who his target audience is, there is a LOT to chew through here. EFMB answers questions you didn't know you had, like “why do all vertebrates have only four limbs” and “how come dolphins are mammals but also live in the ocean?” This book has profoundly changed the way I look at living creatures, and the discussion of the evolution of mammalian wings is itself worth the price of admission.