History of Science
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: a Modern Rendition’ by Daniel Duzdevich
Darwin copy-edited for the 21st century.
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Book review: ‘Darwin & His Children’ by Tim M. Berra
His other legacy.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Apprentice’ by Janet Owen
An archaeological biography of John Lubbock.
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Book review: ‘The Origin of Darwinism’ by James Randerson (ed.)
A Guardian shorts ebook.
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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: ‘The Song of the Dodo’ by David Quammen
Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
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Book review: ‘The Flight of the Iguana’ by David Quammen
A sidelong view of science and nature
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Book review: ‘Monster of God’ by David Quammen
The man-eating predator in the jungles of history and the mind
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Book review: ‘The Reluctant Mr Darwin’ by David Quammen
An intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
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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.