★ Winner of the 16th China Wenjin Book Award, one of China's most credible national book awards, which honors outstanding publications that combine intellectual depth with popular appeal.
★ Shortlisted for "2020 Chinese Book of the Year"; selected for the "3rd Quarter 2020 List of Outstanding Chinese Popular Science Books"; selected for the "China Education News" list of "100 Books Loved by Teachers in 2020"; selected for the "2020 Baidao Original Good Books Annual List."
★ A captivating read that takes you through the century-long debate on evolutionary theory, completely overturning your understanding of life's evolution. Solid and reliable knowledge presented with a humorous and fluent writing style—a popular science book that reads like a novel.
★ This 10th Anniversary Revised Edition features more rigorous logic and smoother prose. Revisions include content related to Goethe, Leibniz, and Saint-Hilaire, expanded sections on Lamarck, and added discussions on the future of evolutionary theory, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of its causes and consequences.
★ English translation samples available.

In Western societies, a person's scientific literacy is often measured by two standards: whether they understand some quantum mechanics, and whether they understand some evolutionary theory.
This highlights the importance of evolutionary theory in cultivating scientific thinking. Evolutionary theory can be used not only to understand biological phenomena but also to comprehend complex events throughout the universe, including its very origins.

This book chronicles the history of the century-long debate surrounding biological evolutionary theory, vividly recreating the scenes where giants in science and philosophy fiercely argued over its origins and development: the clash between evolution and creationism, the contest between Lamarckism and Darwinism, the internal strife within Darwinism, the controversies sparked by Social Darwinism... Each debate represents a collision of ideas, progressively lifting the mysterious veil of evolutionary theory.
Thanks to the author's profound academic expertise and humorous and flowing writing style, even readers without a background in biology can read it without hindrance, grasping the core ideas of evolutionary theory.

Shi Jun
Winner of the China Wenjin Book Award, he holds a Ph.D. in Biology and is an Associate Professor at Anhui Science and Technology University.
He has long been dedicated to popular science writing in the fields of evolutionary theory and sociobiology, adept at presenting rigorous scientific knowledge in an accessible and humorous style.
His published popular science works include "Ghost Stories are All Lies," "Evolution Unraveled," "The Crazy History of Human Evolution," and "A Brief History of Love," all of which have been widely praised by readers.
Among them, "Evolution Unraveled" won the 16th China Wenjin Book Award and was shortlisted for "2020 Chinese Book of the Year".

Introduction: The Origins of the Debate
Chapter 1: Lamarck Sounds the Charge
Chapter 2: Darwin Pulls the Trigger
Chapter 3: Who is the True Father of Evolution?
Chapter 4: The Logic of "On the Origin of Species"
Chapter 5: The Smoke of the Oxford Debate
Chapter 6: Myths About Mankind
Chapter 7: The Twists and Turns of Sexual Selection
Chapter 8: The Conflict Between Selfishness and Cooperation
Chapter 9: The Mysteries of Explosions and Extinctions
Chapter 10: Misconceptions of "Survival of the Fittest"
Chapter 11: Lamarck's Counterattack
Chapter 12: The Specter of Creationism
Chapter 13: Synthesis for a New Era
Chapter 14: The Dilemma of Selection Levels
Chapter 15: The Challenge of Neutral Theory
Chapter 16: The Contradictions of Sociobiology
Epilogue: The Future of Evolutionary Theory