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.
Life sciences: general issues
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!
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. He also reveals the scientific proof of what came first – the chicken or the egg. It was the egg.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue.
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
‘Learning to loaf’ – this books explores the ways of knowing that require more time, the ways we have unlearned or ignore, but that are crucial to our complete mental development.