Jonathan R. Goodman in Nature:From antimicrobial resistance and vaccines to drugs design and even policymaking, evolution is fundamental to many aspects of our lives. In Force of Nature, biologist and legal scholar Owen Jones argues convincingly that understanding how evolution by natural selection works can inform humans’ interactions with their environment and with each other — and that misunderstanding it can create problems. One example he draws on is antimicrobial resistance — one of the most pressing issues in the field of medicine. Humans’ overuse of antibiotics and antimicrobial chemicals is unintentionally creating the circumstances in which resistance to antibiotics can evolve. But it is possible to predict and prevent resistance by considering how such behaviours select for the evolution of resistance.