A modern-day updating of Darwin's less well-known books.
Reviews
Book and video reviews.
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Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
Book review: ‘The Rough Guide to Evolution’ by Mark Pallen
A handy guide to all things evolutionary.
Book review: ‘Fossils, Finches and Fuegians’ by Richard Keynes
Charles Darwin’s adventures and siscoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836.
Book review: ‘Evolution’s Captain’ by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary’ by R.D. Keynes (ed.)
An annotated version of the journal Darwin kept aboard HMS Beagle.
Book review: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Karl Heinz Marquardt
Meticulously detailed ship's plans of HMS Beagle, for anyone thinking of making a model or replica!
Book review: ‘Gilbert White’ by Richard Mabey
A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne.
Book review: ‘Weeds’ by Richard Mabey
How vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think about nature.
Book review: ‘The Eye’ by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.
Book review: ‘The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution’ by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins returns to what he's best at.
Book review: ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Why intelligence testing is stupid.