Holding a PhD in zoology and founding a successful sustainable punk rock band are more symbiotic than would appear at first glance. Greg Graffin co-founded the punk rock group Bad Religion at fifteen, went on to earn his PhD in zoology and currently teaches evolution at UCLA. He is also a naturalist (he doesn’t care for the term atheist). Along with his co-author Steven Olson, he explains his rather complex view of evolution, philosophizes about his life and inevitable death and includes many musings about his punk rock band, drawing often tenable, sometimes surprising parallels between the two. While both the scientific descriptions and the more memoir-esque chapters are each compelling, they don’t quite mesh to form an integrated whole. Still, Graffin has many interesting viewpoints that will give you pause and is so likeable overall that you will be seeking out his bands CDs to learn more about that side of him.
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