John Gribbin

It All Began in Africa

The Man who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois

By Pat Shipman

Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the Course of Evolution

By Garniss Curtis, Carl Swisher and Roger Lewin

LR

February 2019 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Paws for Thought

The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend

By Bryan Sykes

LR

December 2018 Issue

Adrian Woolfson

Deoxyribonucleic Ascent

March 2018 Issue

John Gray

Mind the Gap

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

By Antonio Damasio

September 2017 Issue

John Gray

Evolving Ideas

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

By A N Wilson

LR

July 2017 Issue

Adrian Woolfson

Gene Genie

A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution

By Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg

February 2017 Issue

Marek Kohn

Meme Streak

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

By Daniel C Dennett

LR

September 2016 Issue

Dennis Sewell

Words to the Wise

The Kingdom of Speech

By Tom Wolfe

LR

October 1991 Issue

Frank McLynn

Not Enough Selection

Darwin

By Adrian Desmond & James Moore

LR

November 2015 Issue

John Gray

Transmuting the Point

A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

LR

September 2015 Issue

Henry Gee

1953 and All That

Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

By Matthew Cobb

LR

September 2015 Issue

Dennis Sewell

Little by Little

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

By Matt Ridley

LR

July 2015 Issue

Henry Gee

Of Cells & Chutzpah

The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?

By Nick Lane

LR

May 2015 Issue

Tori Herridge

Shaggy Elephant Story

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

By Beth Shapiro

LR

May 2003 Issue

A C Grayling

Evolutionary Minds

A Devil's Chaplain

By Richard Dawkins

DNA: The Secret of Life

By James D Watson

LR

November 2004 Issue

A C Grayling

A Theory to Believe In

A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination

By Marek Kohn

LR

November 2004 Issue

Crispin Tickell

Backwards In Time

The Ancestor's Tale

By Richard Dawkins

LR

August 2011 Issue

Marek Kohn

Arguments Ad Hominin

The Origin of Our Species

By Chris Stringer

LR

October 2009 Issue

John Cornwell

Decoding Darwin

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By Richard Dawkins

LR

October 2009 Issue

Brenda Maddox

She Sold Seashells

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

By Shelley Emling

Remarkable Creatures

By Tracy Chevalier

LR

Sign Up to our newsletter

@Lit_Review

Last Tweets