A sidelong view of science and nature
Reviews
Book and video reviews.
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Book review: ‘Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, adventure, and swimming iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America’ by Eric Simons
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
Book review: ‘Evolution’ by Carl Zimmer
The triumph of an Idea: from Darwin to DNA.
Book review: ‘The Song of the Dodo’ by David Quammen
Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
Book review: ‘Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow 1796–1861’ by S.M. Walters & E.A. Stow
The biography of John Stephens Henslow, Charles Darwin’s favourite tutor at Cambridge, and an all-round good egg.
Book review: ‘Your Inner Fish’ by Neil Shubin
A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body.
Book review: ‘Darwin's Island’ by Steve Jones
A modern-day updating of Darwin's less well-known books.
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.