The Serengeti Rules

by Sean B. Carroll

Sean Carroll's captivating science narrative follows five scientists whose independent discoveries converged on a single revolutionary idea: that all of life, from the chemistry of cells to the populations of lions, is governed by a set of universal regulatory rules. Carroll moves between the Serengeti's savanna and molecular biology labs with equal fluency, showing how the same logic that prevents cancer also determines whether wildebeest herds thrive. The book makes a compelling case that understanding these rules is our best hope for restoring damaged ecosystems. It is science writing at its most elegantly unified.