"Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take"--Amazon.com.

World enough, and time -- What Darwin didn't know -- The origin of innovation -- The universal library -- Shapely beauties -- Command and control -- The hidden architecture -- From nature to technology -- Plato's cave.