Reflections in Natural History.
Reviews: History of Science
Reviews of books about the history of science.
Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution.
Book review: ‘The Making of the Fittest’ by Sean B Carroll
DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.
Book review: ‘Darwin's On the Origin of Species: a Modern Rendition’ by Daniel Duzdevich
Darwin copy-edited for the 21st century.
Book review: ‘Darwin & His Children’ by Tim M. Berra
His other legacy.
Book review: ‘Darwin's Apprentice’ by Janet Owen
An archaeological biography of John Lubbock.