In this witty factpacked AZ Newman takes the reader on a whirlwind tour from caring sharing vampire bats to intelligent slimemould from pacifist baboons to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman from the invisibility cloak of the Hawaiian bobtail squid to Francis DNA Cricks belief that life on earth began with alien spaceships The only comedian ever credited in a paper published in the science journal Nature Newman explores how stunning scientific breakthroughs have turned received ideas of evolution upsidedown Now a BBC Radio 4 comedy series the Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution is based on the stand up show Robert Newmans New Theory of Evolution