Science
Reviews of science-related books.
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Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson
In search of rockpools and other miracles.
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Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin answers his critics re. the evolution of complex adaptations.
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Book review: ‘Map of a Nation’ by Rachel Hewitt
A biography of the early Ordnance Survey.
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Book review: ‘Proto’ by Laura Spinney
How one ancient language went global.
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Book review: ‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’ by Richard Dawkins
A Darwinian reverie.
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Book review: ‘The Celts’ by Alice Roberts
Searching for a civilisation.
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Book review: ‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden
A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 30 • 1882’
The end of a magnificent era.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 29 • 1881’
Publishing on earthworms • a pension for Wallace • death of a brother • feeling his age • and lots more…
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 28 • 1880’
Publishing on plant movement • researching earthworms • trying to get a civil pension for a friend • turning down an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury • and lots more…
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Book review: ‘Crypt’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages and beyond.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 27 • 1879’
Darwin reaches 70 • working on his grandfather’s biography • a visit to the Lake District • continuing to investigate movement in plants • and lots more…