How camouflage evolved in some animals, how some animals evolved to land and returned to the see, how eye-sight changed and developed, ... He gives hundreds of bizarre and quite exceptional behaviour in animals that become easy to understand once Dawkins explains what has or might have happened in the genetic archives of the species. He also explained how different species developed similar characteristics independently from each other. He does this with layman's language, with sufficient science to make it interesting, but still focused on delivering a text that many without a scientific education can read without any problem. And to his credit, he also comes with quite a number of "scientific intuitions" or theories on what needs further exploration.
The book is nicely illustrated by Jana Lenzová and contains a wealth of pictures.
Apart from the interesting subject itself, Dawkins's enthusiasm and wonder about our living world makes it an even easier to recommend book.
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