Writing tagged: ‘books’
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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: ‘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: ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Why intelligence testing is stupid.
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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: ‘Last Chance to See…’ by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
The late Douglas Adams travels the world visiting endangered species.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’ by Cyril Aydon
A short, very readable biography of Charles Darwin.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Garden’ by Michael Boulter
The first book with the word Darwin on the spine that I ever gave up on.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Origin of Species: a biography’ by Janet Browne
A short biography of one of the most revolutionary books ever written.
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Book review: ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ by Deborah Cadbury
The Victorian search for dinosaurs.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Mysterious Illness: A medical puzzle unsolved for 150 years’ by Robert Youngson
13-page booklet examining the possible causes for Darwin’s illness.
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The seahorse and the pelican
In which I (perhaps) help piece together a vague memory from my father’s childhood.
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Ruskin’s aesthetic taxonomy
On the intriguing and rather barmy plant taxonomy suggested by the Nineteenth Century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.