James A.Shapiro’s new book Evolution:A View from the 21st Century stands out among various semi-popular books on evolution by presenting much new information gathered from recent developments in molecular genetics and genomic studies.The book uses bold metaphoric language likely to resonate with non-professional readers to advocate an informational and genomic-based approach for understanding evolution,and criticizes the mutation and selection based conventional evolutionary approach as canonized in the Mod Synthesis developed in the second half of the 20th century.