The Evolution of Living Things is the Most Interesting Story - 'The Mechanism of Evolution' - [Shinsho Challenge 3]

This is the second book for the second day of the Shinsho Challenge.
Actually, this book was kept in the second-floor restroom as reading material until recently, but the content was so incredibly interesting that I ended up staying in the restroom to read it.

The content itself should be difficult in some places. After all, it contains the research findings of a world-leading scientist who continues to study evolution through snail research. However, strangely enough, it reads very smoothly. It is terrifyingly easy to read. And the story unfolds in an exciting way.

Is this what they mean by 'truth is stranger than fiction'?

After being surprised by the evolution of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands and feeling a bit teary-eyed at the fate of Jeremy the snail, I was left breathless by the research on Semisulcospira libertina (a type of snail) and the ecological survey of snails on the Ogasawara Islands. It is the easiest-to-read science book I have ever read.

For someone like me who has loved television programs about animals and nature since I was a child, starting with 'Wild Kingdom' and continuing to 'Darwin has Arrived' today, this book felt like a new horizon opening up before my eyes.

There are too many intriguing titles in the recent Kodansha Blue Backs series!
'Why Does Oriental Medicine Work?', co-authored by a director who made an NHK Special on Oriental medicine, was also good, and there are several other unread titles, so I would like to finish them during the Shinsho Challenge.

The book on Oriental medicine is here↓↓↓

As an aside, do you use bookmarks when you read books?
Sometimes they come with the book, but more often than not, they don't, right?

The bookmark included with this Kodansha Blue Backs was made of soft paper and was very easy to use.

Most bookmarks are made of stiff paper, but when you are reading the first or last few pages of a book, if the bookmark is stiff, it makes the pages curl up and hard to read if you try to keep it tucked in. So, you end up taking it out, and then the bookmark gets lost somewhere... However, because this one is so soft, it follows the open page, so there is no problem leaving it tucked in the book.

I thought this was a subtly brilliant idea.