Reviews
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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: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Keith S Thomson
The ship that changed the course of history.
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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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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: ‘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 Flight of the Iguana’ by David Quammen
A sidelong view of science and nature
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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 Rough Guide to Evolution’ by Mark Pallen
A handy guide to all things evolutionary.
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Book review: ‘Evolution’s Captain’ by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.