An annotated version of the journal Darwin kept aboard HMS Beagle.
Reviews
Book review: ‘Darwin's Island’ by Steve Jones
A modern-day updating of Darwin's less well-known books.
Book review: ‘The Single Helix’ by Steve Jones
Short science essays from the famous geneticist and snail man.
Book review: ‘Coral’ by Steve Jones
Expositions on assorted scientific subjects using coral as the unifying theme.
Book review: ‘The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments’ by George Johnson
Ten classic science experiments and the stories behind them.
Book review: ‘The Eye’ by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.
Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
Book review: ‘Of Moths & Men’ by Judith Hooper
The story of how some of Bernard Kettlewell's famous peppered moth experiments contained certain flaws.
Book review: ‘The Age of Wonder’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
Book review: ‘The Evolutionists’ by J. David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin, Geologist’ by Sandra Herbert
What Charles Darwin did for geology.
Book review: ‘The Structure of Evolutionary Theory’ by Stephen Jay Gould
The maestro's magnum opus.