November 2024 Issue Henry Gee 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
February 2009 Issue Kenan Malik The Unity of Man Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins By Adrian Desmond and James Moore LR
October 2008 Issue John Cornwell And God Created… Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism By Steve Fuller LR
June 2013 Issue Andrew Brown Ignoble Savages Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live By Marlene Zuk The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates By Frans de Waal LR
April 2013 Issue Marek Kohn The Evolution of a Theory Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin By Peter J Bowler LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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