Reviews
Book and video reviews.
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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.
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Book review: ‘Your Inner Fish’ by Neil Shubin
A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body.
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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.
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Book review: ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’ by Rebecca Stott
Charles Darwin’s eight-year barnacle odyssey.
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Book review: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Keith S Thomson
The ship that changed the course of history.
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Book review: ‘The Lunar Men’ by Jenny Uglow
The Friends who Made the Future, 1730–1810
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Book review: ‘Darwin in Cambridge’ by John van Wyhe
A useful booklet about Darwin’s Cambridge connections.
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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.
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Book review: ‘Evolution’ by Carl Zimmer
The triumph of an Idea: from Darwin to DNA.
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Book review: ‘Parasite Rex’ by Carl Zimmer
Inside the bizarre world of nature’s most dangerous creatures.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin, Geologist’ by Sandra Herbert
What Charles Darwin did for geology.
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Book review: ‘The Evolutionists’ by J. David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.