- Hidden Histories of Science edited by Robert Silvers, Granta
- Life鈥檚 Grandeur by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape
- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, Viking
- The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley, Viking
- In the Blood by Steve Jones, HarperCollins
- Charles Darwin鈥檚 Letters edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Cambridge University Press
- Narrow Roads of Geneland by W. H. Hamilton, W. H. Freeman
- Sperm Wars by Robin Baker, Fourth Estate
- Improving Nature by Michael Weiss, Roger Straughan and Michael Reiss, Cambridge University Press
- Darwin鈥檚 Black Box by Michael Behe, Free Press
God or a designer, says Behe, sits inside Darwin鈥檚 Black Box. There is no
marriage of 19th-century ideas with 20th-century discoveries, so we need a
higher intelligence to lend a hand, tentacle or whatever.
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