[joshuahedlund]

For those arguing about the role of determinism (or lack of it) in evolution, I just finished and highly recommend the new book Improbable Destinies by Jonathan Losos. It covers both sides of the debate (sort of set up as "Stephen Jay Gould" vs "Simon Conway Morris") and gets you up to speed on all the latest fascinating stuff revealed by genome sequencing. There's a lot more to the topic than you might expect if you haven't been following the last few years.