Brilliantly readable, with wit and irony intertwined in the prose. It's made for the curious and questioning person who has noticed how stalled and duplicative evolutionary science has become. No breakthroughs of any significance have taken place as promised, even after 100 years of deep study. Meanwhile, the massive discoveries in the world of microbiology and DNA show how absurd it is to think Darwin was ever going to lead us to the promised land of answers. It's a moribund mass of contradictory data.