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Biology and Evolution
Interviews with biologists and evolutionary scientists about their new books.
November 11, 2024
In Pursuit of Unicorns
Modern biotechnology--genetic engineering and cell manipulation--originated with the 1973 demonstration that genes from different organisms could be r…
November 10, 2024
Inheritance
Each of us is endowed with an inheritance--a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generation…
October 31, 2024
Animals Dream and That Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
In his marvelous new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (Princeton UP, 2023), David Peña-Guzmán (SF State as well as …
October 27, 2024
Ancestry Reimagined
Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentia…
October 19, 2024
A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds
Francisco Aboitiz is a professor at the Medical School and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Cat…
October 17, 2024
Hoof Beats
Which society was the first to domesticate the horse? It’s a difficult question. The archaeological record is spotty, with only very recent advancemen…
September 13, 2024
Curious Species
Dive into the world of animals with Whitney Barlow Robles in her captivating new book, Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale UP, 202…
September 3, 2024
Darwin Mythology
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception…
September 2, 2024
Appetite and Its Discontents
Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its D…
August 23, 2024
The Last Butterflies
Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without …
August 10, 2024
Interspecies Communication
In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of atte…
August 10, 2024
Evolution and Development
It was an astounding discovery in the early 1980's that the same genetic sequence, the homeobox, controlled the development of basic body plans across…
July 10, 2024
Model Cases
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resear…
June 28, 2024
What Is Extinction?
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extin…
June 14, 2024
At Every Depth
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic pol…
June 13, 2024
Tabula Raza
In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an inti…
May 16, 2024
At Every Depth
Today’s book is: At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024), by Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, which takes readers …
May 10, 2024
Life's Edge
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the appl…
April 30, 2024
Memory Makes the Brain
If you're interested in memory, you'll find a lot in Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains…
April 27, 2024
Why We Remember
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters…