Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
by Richard Dawkins (Apollo, 2021); audiobook read by the author (Clipper Audio, 2021)
A short though surprisingly unfocussed account of human aeronautical design (minimal detail) and of how creatures of the natural world achieved flight through evolution. The parallels, needless to say, suggest that natural selection amounts to its own continuous (if unthinking) drafting process.
