When the acclaimed American author Tom Wolfe died in 2018, he left a rich body of work whose stylistic blend…
Many of us know the story of how Charles Darwin (1809–1882) took a five-year voyage aboard The Beagle to the…
Many of the ideas brilliantly and compellingly explored in Why Darwin Matters made a showing in certain chapters of three…
Life Ascending, by the author of Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World and Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the…
Rebel Giants, David Contosta’s latest book, offers a timely examination of the lives of two men who transformed their world—and…
Untangling the cause and effect relationships embedded in historical events can be a complicated endeavor. This is especially true when complex…
British biologist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about…
The theory of evolution by natural selection, first described in 1859 by Charles Darwin, has often been described as the…
Janet Browne has smartly applied her work of studying correspondence from Charles Darwin to her two-volume biography of Darwin’s life. And…
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) laid the foundations of evolutionary biology through the process of natural selection, which he outlined in…