Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure
Is pleasure selfish and are we selfish to pursue it, scientifically speaking?
Biology, life sciences
Deep Time: Cladistics, The Revolution in Evolution
In Deep Time, Henry Gee, assistant editor of Nature, shows us that everything we think we know about evolution is wrong.
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human: Large type edition
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley’s thrilling follow-up to his bestseller ‘Genome’. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour.
The Geneticist Who Played Hoops With My DNA: Genius and the Quest to Rewrite Life
Combining myth, biography, and wit, this is a highly original depiction of cutting-edge science and its profound implications told through the scientists who are rewriting life on earth.
Jacob’s Ladder: The History of the Human Genome
In ‘Deep Time’ Henry Gee told us why the chicken came before the egg. In his new book, ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, he tells us the comprehensive answer to the simple question: how did I get here?
Spix’s Macaw: The Race to Save the World’s Rarest Bird
An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.
Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind
‘Phantoms in The Brain’ takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world’s leading experimental neurologists.
Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy and the Peppered Moth
The tale of a flagrant scientific fraud and its cover-up, and scientific incompetence behind the most important paradigm in evolutionary biology: Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’.
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley’s thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour.
Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant
A real walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia.
Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution
The story of the personal tragedy that lay behind Darwin’s revolutionary understanding of man’s place in nature.
Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy and the Peppered Moth
The tale of a flagrant scientific fraud, its cover-up and scientific incompetence behind the most important paradigm in evolutionary biology: Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man
How long have humans left on Earth? Using cutting edge science that revolutionises our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined.
Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant
A real walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia.
Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution
The story of the personal tragedy that lay behind Darwin’s revolutionary understanding of man’s place in nature.
A Fish Caught in Time
A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish!