I received this in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. Thank you to the author, Scott Solomon, and the publisher, Yale University Press, for this opportunity.

A book exploring the past evolutionary process and future possible evolution of the the human species might not sound appealing to a wide audience. For this science nerd, however, it sounded like the perfect thing!

I have been craving some intellectual non-fiction that didn't completely baffle or bore me and this delivered on that front. This managed to make for educational reading without becoming overly and unnecessarily wordy and complex. The writing is compelling and informational whilst managing not to become dense and impenetrable.

I wouldn't class myself as knowledgeable in the subject matters covered, but I had a little more than a passing awareness. I don't think it would be exactly suited to someone with no prior understanding of genomes and DNA etc. but is definitely very accessible to novice, like myself.

The area of most interest to me was the last section, that focused on humans and the colonization of other planets and the potential effect this would have on our future evolutionary process. I would have preferred a larger focus to be paid to this topic, but that is just me personal preference.

Overall, this was interesting and informative and managed to become a one-sitting book, but definitely one I can see myself returning to.