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Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring" (Hurst Publishers, 2025)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Jeffrey D. Sharon, "The Great Balancing Act: An Insider's Guide to the Human Vestibular System" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Caleb Scharf, "The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life" (Hachette UK, 2025)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Armin W. Schulz, "Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences" (Springer, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Eugene Rosenberg and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, "Where Did We Come From?: The Origin and Evolution of Life" (Austin Macauley, 2025)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Robert N. Spengler, "Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Kevin J. Tracey, "The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes" (Penguin, 2025)
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Maggie M. Fink and Shahir S. Rizk, "The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life" (Belknap Press, 2025)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Alfonso Martinez Arias, "The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Agustín Fuentes, "Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Insects as a Natural and Cultural Resource across Southeast Asia
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Insects as a Natural and Cultural Resource across Southeast Asia
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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John Trowsdale, "What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Eliot Schrefer, "Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality" (Clarion Books, 2022)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Ethan Tapper, "How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World" (Broadleaf Books, 2024)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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David Strayer, "Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and that Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Francisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Alan C. Love, "Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans
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May 16, 2024 |
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Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Future of Images of Human Evolution
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Shelly Kagan, "How to Count Animals, More Or Less" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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John Perlin, "The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and Civilization" (Patagonia, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Shark Sciences: A Conversation with Carlee Jackson
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Kendra Coulter, "Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Han Yu, "The Curious Human Knee" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
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May 29, 2023 |
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
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May 19, 2023 |
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Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2023 |
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Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia
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May 09, 2023 |
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Do You Have Imposter Syndrome?
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May 04, 2023 |
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The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Christopher J. Preston, "Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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David Rothenberg, "Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound" (Terra Nova Press, 2023)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Life Extension Therapies
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Sara Rich, "Mushroom" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Evolution of Language
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Seeing Truth in the Archives
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett, "Game Theory and Behavior" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Annika A. Culver, "Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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The Surprising World of Wasps
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Elise Vernon Pearlstine, "Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Peter S. Alagona, "The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Adam Nocek, "Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Max Foran, "The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife: Failures of Principle and Policy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Fred Delcomyn and James L. Ellis, "A Backyard Prairie: The Hidden Beauty of Tallgrass and Wildflowers" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Erica Gies, "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Rosetta S. Elkin, "Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Siniša Malešević, "Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Jeannie N. Shinozuka, "Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Michael Hannah, "Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Carles Lalueza-Fox, "Inequality: A Genetic History" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Juli Berwald, "Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Alison F. Richard, "Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Danielle J. Whittaker, "The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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David George Haskell, "Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction" (Viking, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Paul Huebener, "Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis" (U Regina Press, 2020)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
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May 31, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim, "Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Greg Brennecka, "Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong" (William Morrow, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Comstock Publishing, 2021)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Cleo Wölfle Hazard, "Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 19, 2022 |
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David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
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Abby Seiff, "Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Sam Tatam, "Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow's Challenges" (Harriman House, 2022)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
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May 11, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
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May 04, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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John Measey, "How to Write a PhD in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Daniel Bolnick, Editor in Chief of "The American Naturalist"
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Jackie Higgins, "Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses" (Atria Books, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman, "Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Walter R. Tschinkel, "Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Annette Whipple, "Whooo Knew?: The Truth about Owls" (Reycraft Books, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Migual Nicolelis, “Minds and Machines” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Vinciane Despret, "Living as a Bird" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Bradley Alger, "Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Alcino Silva, “Learning and Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Eunice Blavascunas, "Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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The Scholarly Journal: An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry"
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Caitlin Donohue Wylie, "Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Lauren Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Biology" (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Lydia Denworth, "Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Bijal P. Trivedi, "Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever" (Benbella, 2020)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Leigh Calvez, "The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds" (Sasquatch Books, 2016)
|
Apr 23, 2021 |
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James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Juno Salazar Parreñas, "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke University Press, 2018)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Exploring STEM, Insulin Research, and Why We Get Sick
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Erika Engelhaupt, "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" (National Geographic, 2020)
|
Feb 25, 2021 |
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Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics
|
Feb 24, 2021 |
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Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis, "The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son" (Hachette, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Dominic Johnson, "Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Seema Yasmin, "Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)
|
Feb 10, 2021 |
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Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
|
Jan 13, 2021 |
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Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution" (MIT Press, 2019)
|
Jan 06, 2021 |
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Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?: A Conversation with Beth Shapiro
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Daniel Lieberman, "Exercised: How We Did Not Evolve to Exercise and What to Do about It" (Pantheon, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Louise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Soraya de Chadarevian, "Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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K. C. Smith and C. Mariscal, "Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020)
|
Oct 27, 2020 |
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Michael E. McCullough, "The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code" (Basic Books, 2020)
|
Oct 22, 2020 |
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Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
|
Oct 12, 2020 |
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Morality in Nature: What Honeybees and Flowers Can Tell Us about its Origin
|
Oct 07, 2020 |
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Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020)
|
Oct 05, 2020 |
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Frans de Waal, "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves" (Norton, 2019)
|
Oct 01, 2020 |
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Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)
|
Sep 10, 2020 |
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Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Jul 10, 2020 |
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Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening" (Wesleyan UP, 2018)
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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A. M. Barton and W. S. Keeton, "Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests" (Island Press, 2018)
|
May 14, 2020 |
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Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Jodi Hilty, "Corridor Ecology: Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation" (Island Press, 2019)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Wenfei Tong, "Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action" (Public Affairs, 2020)
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Stephen Le, "100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today" (Picador, 2016)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Helen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans" (Reaktion Books, 2018)
|
Nov 15, 2019 |
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Justin Garson, "What Biological Functions are and Why They Matter" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Matthew James, "Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story" (National Geographic, 2017)
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Steve Stewart-Williams, "The Ape That Understood the Universe: How Mind and Culture Evolve" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Stephan J. Guyenet, "The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat" (Flatiron Books, 2017)
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, "The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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David P. Barash, “Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (MIT Press, 2017)
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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Theodore M. Porter, “Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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S. Hayes and D. S. Wilson, “Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior” (Context Press, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Megan Raby, “American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Dan Siegel, “Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence” (TarcherPerigee, 2018)
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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Sabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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Sam Kean, “The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code” (Back Bay, 2013)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Joanna Radin, “Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Kyla Schuller, “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Jenny Reardon, “The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Knowledge and Justice after the Genome” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Susan M. Squier, “Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Abby Hafer, “The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not” (Cascade Books, 2015)
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Nov 25, 2017 |
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Ron Mallon, “The Construction of Human Kinds” (Oxford University Press, 2016)
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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Beau Lotto, “Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently” (Hatchette Books, 2017)
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May 30, 2017 |
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Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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May 13, 2017 |
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Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
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May 11, 2017 |
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Helen Anne Curry, “Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
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May 08, 2017 |
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Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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Colleen Derkatch, “Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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April R. Haynes, “Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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Elizabeth A. Wilson, “Gut Feminism” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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Ronald Chase, “Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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George Makari, “Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind” (Norton, 2014)
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Jan 20, 2016 |
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Nick Hopwood, “Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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Jorg Matthias Determann, “Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
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Nov 29, 2015 |
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James E. Strick, “Wilhelm Reich, Biologist” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder, “Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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Alexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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Raf De Bont, “Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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Margaret Morrison, “Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Myles W. Jackson, “The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race” (MIT Press, 2015)
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May 18, 2015 |
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Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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Kimberly A. Hamlin, “From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
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Feb 23, 2015 |
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Nicolas Rasmussen, “Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
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Jan 30, 2015 |
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Vera Kolb, “Astrobiology: An Evolutionary Approach” (CRC Press, 2014)
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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William J. Turkel, “Spark from the Deep” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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Nov 13, 2014 |
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David Wright, “Downs: The History of a Disability” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Sep 30, 2014 |
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Silver Donald Cameron, “The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics where the Land Meets the Sea” (Red Deer Press, 2014)
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Aug 05, 2014 |
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Jane Maienschein, “Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Jun 12, 2014 |
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Marwa Elshakry, “Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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May 23, 2014 |
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Melinda B. Fagan, “Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology: Knowledge in Flesh and Blood” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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May 15, 2014 |
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Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)
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May 03, 2014 |
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Sarah Franklin, “Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship” (Duke University Press, 2013)
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Mar 09, 2014 |
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John Hibbing et al., “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences” (Routledge, 2013)
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Feb 24, 2014 |
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Eduardo Kohn, “How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Feb 09, 2014 |
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Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 31, 2014 |
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Robert J. Richards, “Was Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 21, 2014 |
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John Waldman, “Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations” (Lyons Press, 2013)
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Jan 16, 2014 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Nov 27, 2013 |
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Kim TallBear, “Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
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Nov 23, 2013 |
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Marga Vicedo, “The Nature and Nurture of Love” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Oct 19, 2013 |
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Dorothy H. Crawford, “Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Oct 16, 2013 |
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Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Sep 27, 2013 |
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Jerome Kagan, “The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development” (Basic Books, 2013)
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Sep 02, 2013 |
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Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates” (Norton, 2013)
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Jul 17, 2013 |
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Nathaniel Comfort, “The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine” (Yale UP, 2012)
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Jul 05, 2013 |
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Joseph November, “Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
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May 14, 2013 |
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Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
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Apr 22, 2013 |
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Sally Smith Hughes, “Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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David Sepkoski, “Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline” (University of Chicago, 2012)
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Nov 20, 2012 |
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John S. Allen, “The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship to Food” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
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Oct 23, 2012 |
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Kristin Andrews, “Do Apes Read Minds?: Toward a New Folk Psychology” (MIT Press, 2012)
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Sep 15, 2012 |
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Andrew F. Jones, “Developmental Fairytales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture” (Harvard UP, 2011)
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Nov 30, 2011 |
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Anthony Penna, “The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
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Jul 18, 2011 |
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Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010)
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Dec 17, 2010 |
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P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe” (BookSurge, 2009)
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Apr 30, 2010 |
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Gregory Cochran, “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic, 2009)
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Mar 06, 2009 |