From the November 2024 Issue Neanderthal Resources Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation By Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard Curtis) LR
From the September 2024 Issue Spore to Spore Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms By Richard Fortey LR
From the March 2023 Issue Could Jurassic Park Happen? Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils By Dale E Greenwalt LR
From the February 2022 Issue Secrets of the Ediacara Hills Otherlands: A World in the Making By Thomas Halliday LR
From the December 2020 Issue Magic Mushrooms Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures By Merlin Sheldrake LR
From the July 2020 Issue A Soldier & a Scientist A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J B S Haldane By Samanth Subramanian LR
From the December 2018 Issue What Did the Iguanodon Ever Do for Us? Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs By Boria Sax LR
From the May 2018 Issue Before the Asteroid The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World By Steve Brusatte LR
From the July 2017 Issue Getting the Look Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions By Alexander Todorov LR
From the September 2015 Issue 1953 and All That Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code By Matthew Cobb LR
From the July 2015 Issue Of Cells & Chutzpah The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? By Nick Lane LR
From the December 2014 Issue Crossing the Wires Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle By Andreas Wagner LR
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