June 2025 Issue Patrick Wilcken Descent of Man Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia By Matthew Carr LR
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
November 2020 Issue Paul Broks Changes of Mind The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention By Simon Baron-Cohen
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 2015 Issue Henry Gee 1953 and All That Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code By Matthew Cobb 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
October 2008 Issue John Cornwell And God Created… Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism By Steve Fuller LR
June 2012 Issue Colin Tudge Selectioneering Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists By Rebecca Stott LR
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