A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body.
Reviews
Book review: ‘Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life’ by Peter Raby
A very readable biography about the ‘co-discoverer’ of Natural Selection—the man who nearly scooped Darwin.
Book review: ‘The Reluctant Mr Darwin’ by David Quammen
An intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
Book review: ‘Monster of God’ by David Quammen
The man-eating predator in the jungles of history and the mind
Book review: ‘The Flight of the Iguana’ by David Quammen
A sidelong view of science and nature
Book review: ‘The Song of the Dodo’ by David Quammen
Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
Book review: ‘The Rough Guide to Evolution’ by Mark Pallen
A handy guide to all things evolutionary.
Book review: ‘Evolution’s Captain’ by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of 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: ‘Fossils, Finches and Fuegians’ by Richard Keynes
Charles Darwin’s adventures and siscoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836.