"In 2011, James A. Shapiro's Evolution: A View from the 21st Century proposed a revolutionary paradigm for understanding biological evolution: natural genetic engineering, not random accidents, produce genomic change. In the 21st-century view organisms are active participants in the evolutionary process. Since then, climate change and multiple crises in infectious disease have given new urgency to understanding evolution. In this expanded second edition, Shapiro shares new evidence that living cells re-engineer their genomes in response to environmental challenges and disruptions to cellular reproduction....Written for both general and academic readers, the second edition includes discussions of the latest thinking on evolutionary processes, published scientific papers sharing key research from the past decade, and the full text of the 2011 edition with appendices." -- back cover