Newsletter No. 12: Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs

Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall

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Newsletter No. 12: Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs
Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall

Book review: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.