So some of this material might be already common knowledge, depending on your educational background. After all, this was written by someone who teaches this material to students at UCLA. Much of Anarchy Evolution could be considered adequate reading material for an introduction into the history of evolutionary biology. This trip would change Greg’s life forever. His naturalist worldview is based upon “observation, experiment, and verification.” He spends a good deal of time in this book detailing many of his adventures observing nature and gathering evidence in collegiate field studies, including an amazing story about a trip to the Amazon while working at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History in 1987. Graffin himself doesn’t really consider himself a so-called atheist, but really a “naturalist” - as in someone who believes solely that no supernatural entities were or are involved in creating what we know as the universe. He also tackles the issue of being an atheist. He challenges the claim of an eternal afterlife and spends a good deal of time talking about the falsehood of natural selection. Graffin challenges almost every aspect of religious rule in this book, well beyond evolution. He ties the personal and educational together by drawing examples of how certain parts of his life (especially his teenage years) echo the natural effects of anarchic evolution - hence the title of the book. The other half reads like a textbook, with detailed passages that feel like they came right out of his lecture series at UCLA (where he teaches evolution). Half of the book is written in an autobiographical sense as Graffin details growing up in Wisconsin, his family, moving out west to LA, and the events leading up to the founding of Bad Religion with Brett Gurewitz. Anarchy Evolution reads like two books in one.

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