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Swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight chasing a Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.), Kenya, Africa.

Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

30 April 2025

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary relationships
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Traders work the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange November 9, 2005 in New York City. Following a report that inventories of crude and gasoline grew in the last week, oil prices dropped Wednesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth dearly

29 January 2025

A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to manage risk. We might do better to think more like elephants
H82G6F Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) portrait, Costa Rica

An engrossing history of teeth shows their complex role in evolution

14 August 2024

From birds and bats to horses and great apes, Bill Schutt's seriously fun history of teeth, Bite, explains their role in both shaping evolution and our understanding of it
Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

12 February 2014

The excellent Ten Thousand Birds takes us from the obsessive bird collectors of Darwin's time to the fully fledged scientists of today

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