Evolutionary biology rests on the assumption that although events are fundamentally random, some are selected because they are better adapted than others to the... » 

Evolutionary biology rests on the assumption that although events are fundamentally random, some are selected because they are better adapted than others to the surrounding world. This book proposes an alternative view of evolving complexity. Bird argues that randomness means not disorder but infinite order. Complexity arises not from many random events of natural selection but from the playing out of chaotic systems - which are best described mathematically. When we preperly understand the complex interplay of chaos and life, Bird contends, we will see that many events that appear random are actually the outcome of order. «