Reviews
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Book review: ‘Coral’ by Steve Jones
Expositions on assorted scientific subjects using coral as the unifying theme.
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Book review: ‘The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments’ by George Johnson
Ten classic science experiments and the stories behind them.
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Book review: ‘The Eye’ by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.
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Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
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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.
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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.