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.
Punctuated Equilibrium vs. Gradualism: The Forgotten War in Evolutionary Theory
Revolutions rarely announce themselves. They accumulate quietly — in margin notes, in dissenting lectures, in…
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett — The Book That Finished What Nietzsche and Dawkins Started
Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, from complications of…
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The Book That Changed Everything We Thought We Knew About Life
Darwin did not set out to destroy God. He set out to explain pigeons. That…
