Reviews
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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: ‘The Evolutionists’ by J. David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
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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 Structure of Evolutionary Theory’ by Stephen Jay Gould
The maestro’s magnum opus.
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Book review: ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Why intelligence testing is stupid.
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Book review: ‘The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities.
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Book review: ‘Dry Store Room No.1’ by Richard Fortey
The personalities and politics behinds the scenes at the Natural History Museum.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’ by Niles Eldredge
A fascinating analysis of the development of Darwin’s thinking.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Sacred Cause’ by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
How Charles Darwin’s abhorrence of slavery influenced his science.
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Book review: ‘Darwin in Scotland’ by J.F. Derry
Edinburgh, evolution and enlightenment.
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Book review: ‘The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution’ by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins returns to what he’s best at.
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Book review: ‘The Ancestor’s Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life’ by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins’s lavishly illustrated magnum opus-cum-coffee table book.