Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes — A Review
Most people know Charles Darwin the way they know a monument: imposing, fixed, slightly remote….
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett — The Book That Gave Darwin the Last Word on Free Will
Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves argues that free will didn’t fall apart under Darwin — it was built by him. A review of one of the most important philosophy books of the last 25 years.
Francis Collins Builds the Human Genome; Francis Collins Builds an Altar: The Debate His Own Colleagues Refused to Have in Public and What Happened When Jerry Coyne Finally Did
Francis Collins sequenced the human genome and then said it pointed to God. Jerry Coyne spent years publicly dismantling that claim. Here’s what the debate actually showed — and didn’t.
The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey — The Man Who Read the Bones
A review of Richard Leakey’s The Origin of Humankind — the fossil record, contested discoveries, the Turkana Boy, and why bones tell the story DNA alone cannot.
The Origins of Life by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry — The Question That Was Always There
Every serious inquiry into biology eventually arrives at the same wall. You can trace the…
Consilience by E.O. Wilson — The Book He Was Allowed to Write After the One That Got Him Burned
A review of E.O. Wilson’s Consilience — the grand unification project that makes no sense without understanding what happened to Wilson in 1975.
