History of Science
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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 Island’ by Steve Jones
A modern-day updating of Darwin’s less well-known books.
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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.
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Book review: ‘The Age of Wonder’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
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Book review: ‘Of Moths & Men’ by Judith Hooper
The story of how some of Bernard Kettlewell’s famous peppered moth experiments contained certain flaws.