Below is a list of all book reviews published to date in reverse chronological order. Alternatively, you can select a particular topic from the subject archive or browse a gallery of covers.
- Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
- The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Third Edition)
- Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth
- On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
- Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life
- Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know
- The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don’t Know, What We Can, and What We’ll Never Know
- Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography
- The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order
- Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification
- Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus
- Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
- The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life
- Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back
- Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
- How Animals Grieve
- Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
- Metamorphosis: How Insects Are Changing Our World
- Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils
- Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
- Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter
- Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History
- Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
- The Trilobite Collector’s Guide
- The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
- The Ecology of Collective Behavior
- Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior
- The Ant Collective: Inside the World of an Ant Colony
- Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
- Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator
- Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life
- Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
- Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
- Imperfection: A Natural History
- Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection
- Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
- The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics
- Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe
- Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds
- Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
- The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
- Of Cockroaches and Crickets: Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump
- The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
- The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, & Populations
- Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- Determined: Life Without Free Will
- An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology
- Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide
- Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
- A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness
- Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
- On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Species Notebook of 1855-1859
- Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
- Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest: The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
- Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science
- The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
- Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth
- The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World
- What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees
- The Mind of a Bee
- The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet
- On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
- The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
- Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility
- What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
- If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity
- Cave Biodiversity: Speciation and Diversity of Subterranean Fauna
- A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans
- Viruses: A Natural History
- Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around Us
- The Curious World of Bacteria
- The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles
- Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More
- The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World
- The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
- Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
- The Invention of Green Colonialism
- Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art
- Parasites: The Inside Story
- The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
- Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change
- The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
- The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06
- How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
- Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution
- Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
- Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
- The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts
- Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time
- The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
- The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition)
- When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
- Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
- Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
- From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution
- The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs
- Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
- Tears for Crocodilia: Evolution, Ecology, and the Disappearance of One of the World’s Most Ancient Animals
- A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
- When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
- Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
- Imbattable, Tome 3: Le Cauchemar des Malfrats
- The Earth – A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms
- The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
- The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
- Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
- Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
- Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
- The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
- The Process of Animal Domestication
- Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea
- The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
- The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male
- Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us
- Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
- The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
- Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
- A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- Otherlands: A World in the Making
- Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
- Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds
- Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
- Paleontology: An Illustrated History
- Drawing and Painting Dinosaurs: Using Art and Science to Bring the Past to Life
- Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
- A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
- Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
- Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present
- The Ocean’s Whistleblower: The Remarkable Life and Work of Daniel Pauly
- Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
- The Incredible Journey of Plants
- Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- Observing Evolution: Peppered Moths and the Discovery of Parallel Melanism
- Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
- Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
- Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
- The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
- Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
- Aesop’s Fables
- The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
- A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
- Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures
- Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature
- The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis
- Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
- Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore
- The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy
- Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth
- Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
- Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
- Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
- First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
- The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
- Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals
- On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
- Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
- The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
- The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist
- Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
- Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets
- The Science of Middle-Earth: A New Understanding of Tolkien and His World
- Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
- What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
- The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
- Vampirology: The Science of Horror’s Most Famous Fiend
- Dead Zones: The Loss of Oxygen from Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and the Ocean
- Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
- Spider Webs: Behavior, Function, and Evolution
- Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
- Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
- Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
- Lessons from Plants
- A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
- Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park
- The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
- The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
- Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think
- The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis
- New World Monkeys: The Evolutionary Odyssey
- How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 & Beyond
- A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition)
- The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed
- Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
- Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
- The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
- Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World (Second Edition)
- The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack
- Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources
- Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
- The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
- Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans
- Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity
- Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment
- Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
- Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
- Neanderthal Language: Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins
- Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands / Urzeitinseln voller Leben
- Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
- Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
- Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects
- Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas (2-Volume Set)
- Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
- Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful
- Finding our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea – the Milky Way’s Home
- A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
- Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters
- Planetary Accounting: Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity
- Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
- The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
- Sticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
- Oxford Dictionary of Zoology (Fifth Edition)
- The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
- The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
- Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
- Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
- Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
- The Inside Out of Flies
- The Secret Life of Flies
- Volcanotectonics: Understanding the Structure, Deformation and Dynamics of Volcanoes
- Volcanoes (Second Edition)
- COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One
- Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness
- On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins
- Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to be Animals
- Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
- Understanding Coronavirus
- Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory
- Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant
- The Flaws That Kill Our Democracy
- Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
- The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
- Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
- Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet
- Ocean Circulation in Three Dimensions
- Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life
- More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – And What Happens Next
- Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
- Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Second Edition)
- In Defence of Democracy
- Against Democracy
- The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop
- Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose
- Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- Disaster by Choice: How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
- Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth
- Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can
- A Book of Rather Strange Animals: Highlighting the Wonders of Evolution and the Extraordinary Diversity of Life
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
- Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research
- The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate
- Ocean Recovery: A Sustainable Future for Global Fisheries?
- A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins
- End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
- The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes
- The Invertebrate Tree of Life
- The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them
- Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing World
- The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
- Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime
- The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- Superlative: The Biology of Extremes
- Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
- American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodocus
- Rage Inside The Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
- How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
- Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean
- Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
- Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization
- The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
- Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore
- The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution
- An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds
- The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past
- Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From
- The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution
- Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
- The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
- The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
- Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
- Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis
- Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals
- Tracking the Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats
- Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet
- Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
- The Dark Side of the Hive: The Evolution of the Imperfect Honeybee
- Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameraman
- Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves
- The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
- The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them
- Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
- Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
- How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls: Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future
- Everything is Fucked: A Book about Hope
- Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
- Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North
- Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things
- Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
- Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
- Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
- Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Second Edition)
- Superior: The Return of Race Science
- Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
- Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
- The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
- Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
- The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
- Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation
- Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere
- I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
- Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
- The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
- Origins: How the Earth Made Us
- Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature
- Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- Underland: A Deep Time Journey
- Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us
- Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
- The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
- Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
- Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
- Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies
- Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society
- Imbattable, Tome 1: Justice et Légumes Frais & Tome 2: Super-Héros de Proximité
- Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
- Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
- Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
- The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
- Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
- The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
- Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity
- The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
- The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent
- Lost Anatomies: The Evolution of the Human Form
- Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums
- Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- A Matter of Taste: A Farmers’ Market Devotee’s Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table
- The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
- Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
- Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be
- Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
- The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend
- Structural Geology (Second Edition)
- The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
- Essentials of Geology (13th Edition)
- The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How To Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
- Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves
- Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives
- Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
- Sloths! A Celebration of the World’s Most Maligned Mammal
- Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
- Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
- Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style (Second Edition)
- Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World
- Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
- The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
- The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
- Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present
- Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution
- Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
- End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
- The Art of Animal Anatomy: All Life is Here, Dissected and Depicted
- Energy: A Human History
- Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
- King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology
- When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms
- The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative
- Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
- Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
- Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature
- The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
- The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
- Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth
- Volcanoes: Encounters Through the Ages
- Erebus: The Story of a Ship
- The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart
- How Scientific Progress Occurs: Incrementalism and the Life Sciences
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th Anniversary Edition)
- The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
- Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
- Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator
- Microbes from Hell
- The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
- Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go
- The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
- Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food (Second Edition)
- Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
- The Palaeoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art
- The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy
- Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution
- The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
- The Tectonic Plates are Moving!
- Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez
- The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
- Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
- The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
- The Art of Naming
- Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
- Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism
- Should We Control World Population?
- An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition
- The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution
- Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
- Earth History and Palaeogeography
- Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science
- The Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence That Explains the World
- After Man: A Zoology of the Future
- Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution
- A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
- Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
- Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals
- Unnatural Selection
- The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It
- Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet
- Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention
- Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria
- The Oceans: A Deep History
- Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time
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- The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise (Second Edition)
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- Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR-Cas9
- Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
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- The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
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- The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
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- Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
- Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
- Improbable Destinies: How Predictable is Evolution?
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