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I AM HAPPY to welcome Dodson's Evolution: 

 Process and Product to the Reinhold books in the 

 Biological Sciences. It is the kind of book we 

 want because it is exciting without being fanciful 

 and solid without being dull. Evolution is, in last 

 analysis, the philosophical thread that holds con- 

 temporary biology together. However, there are 

 some books on evolution written with wide-eyed 

 enthusiasm as though they were dealing with a 

 new concept. Others plod stolidly along so pre- 

 occupied with detailing the facts that they miss 

 the beauty of the concept. Dodson avoids either 

 extreme. 



This is one of those textbooks that can be read 

 with pleasure by the teacher and with profit by 

 the student. It belongs also in the library of every 

 thinking layman who wants a well-balanced ac- 

 count of the facts, the concept, and the result of 

 Darwin's great contribution to our contemporary 

 thought. 



Peter Gray 

 Consulting Editor 



Pittsh urgh, Pennsi/lvan id 

 April 1960 



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