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Friday, April 02, 2021

Off to the publisher!

The first draft of my book is ready to be sent to my publisher.

Text by Laurence A. Moran

Cover art and figures by Gordon L. Moran

  • 11 chapters
  • 112,000 words (+ preface and glossary)
  • about 370 pages (estimated)
  • 26 figures
  • 305 notes
  • 400 references

©Laurence A. Moran


17 comments :

Jim said...

When can we buy it?

Joe Felsenstein said...

I had wondered about your long periods of silence. Glad to hear that they were not you being glum and inactive, but that the time was put to good use.

Larry Moran said...

It will probably be a year from now.

Mikkel Rumraket Rasmussen said...

This is great news. It will be especially interesting to see responses when it is published.

Joe Felsenstein said...

I think we can start right now guessing what the DI folks will say about it, and do so with great accuracy.

John Harshman said...

Hooray! You should now start a GoFundMe to send a free copy to every molecular biologist and science writer.

Larry Moran said...

@Joe

I've already thought of that. I have a section in the last chapter titled "No comfort for intelligent design creationists" where I explain why they are wrong about junk DNA. I'm pretty sure that will silence any criticism. :-)

Larry Moran said...

Are you kidding me? They're the only people who might buy my book!

John Harshman said...

Why should they buy your book? They already know there's no such thing as junk DNA, which is a name for sequences of unknown function.

Piotr Gąsiorowski said...

Congratulations and best wishes! By now, you have shared so much knowledge with the Sandwalk regulars that they may belong to the small set of people who can't really learn much motre from the book. I'm planning to order it nevertheless.

Ted said...

Congratulations! Many sales.

Barbara said...

Congratulations!

Robert Byers said...

Congrats on the publication 'evolution". Although it seems all design. Well if theres a chapter on ID then already the book enlarges the discussion since there can be a rebuttal and probably will be.

dean said...

'Well if theres a chapter on ID'

It's a book on science, not your favorite unsupported by reality myth.

Doug said...

I’m excited to read this!

Jeffrey Shallit said...

Congrats, Larry!

Rupinder Sayal said...

I'm excited to read about this! Finally an actually useful, scientifically accurate book among the sea of junk books on junk DNA! Best wishes, and I look forward to purchasing it and reading it ASAP!