Darwin gets a makeover
Professor Steve Jones has rewritten Darwin's 'Origin of Species', a book that contains ideas which are just as controversial today as they were 140 years ago.
Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
Don't Bring Home the Bacon
J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
Down the Hatch
Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
Even Baboons Get the Blues
Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
Everybody Into the Gene Pool
John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology
Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
From Brains to Consciousness (Rose)
A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind".
From Grunting to Grammar
Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.
Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life
Anne Magurran reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
Goddess Theory
Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.
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