Activism, scientists and sociobiology - David Hull on 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle
- The Agnostic in the Abbey - I. Bernard Cohen reviews 'Darwin' by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.
- The agony and the ecstasy - Humphrey Carpenter reviews 'Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature' by Daniel Nettle.
- Alas - Paul Higgs reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
- Alas, poor Darwin - Geoffrey Miller reviews the critique of evolutionary psychology edited by Steven and Hilary Rose.
- The Alex Studies by Irene Maxine Pepperberg - First chapter.
- All about Eve - Abraham Verghese reviews 'Woman: An Intimate Geography' by Natalie Angier.
- All About Evil - Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.
- All human life is here - Vaclav Smil on 'Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect' by Paul R. Ehrlich.
- Almost like a Whale (Darwin's Ghost) - Steve Jones - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale' (published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones.
Am I an insect? - Jonathan Flint reviews 'Are We Hardwired? The Role of Genes in Human Behavior' by William R Clark & Michael Grunstein.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.
- And Zebra Stripes and Chocolate Bars - Steven Rose reviews 'Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes' by Stephen Jay Gould.
- Another Branch of the Family - W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge
- Anthropophagy - David Sexton reviews 'Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
- The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal - First chapter.
- An Ape-Man Is Hard to Find - John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.
- Apocalyptic Optimism - Review of 'Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species' by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
- Are You in Anthropodenial? - Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
- Armchair moralising - Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
Ask Darwin's Grandma - Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
- Back to the Stone Age - Erica Goode reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
- Bad Genes - Natalie Angier ireviews 'Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time - The Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body' by Jerry E. Bishop and Michael Waldholz.
- Believe It or Not - Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
- Beyond Viagra - John Horgan reviews Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging' by Tom Kirkwood.
- Biology in progress - Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.
- Birds and bees and neuronal circuits - William B. Kristan reviews 'Behavioral Neurobiology: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior' by Thomas J. Carew.
- The Birds, the Bees and the Coolidges - Derek Bickerton reviews 'The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature' by Matt Ridley.
- A book that rocked the Victorian world - David Oldroyd on 'Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by James A.Secord.
- Books of the Times - Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.
Boys to Men - Robert Coles reviews 'The War Against Boys : How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men' by Christina Hoff Sommers and 'Real Boys' Voices' by William S. Pollack .
- The Brain's Software - Mark Ridley reviews 'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker.
- Branching Out - Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
- Brief Tragedies - Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
- A brilliant dissection of the brain - Semir Zeki reviews 'An Anatomy of Thought' by Ian Glynn.
- Buff and Ready - Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.
- Burrow, Evolution and Society - This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.
- Buttering Up - Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.
- Can a Darwinian be a Christian? - Michael Ruse - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Can a Darwinian be a Christian?' by Michael Ruse.
- Cancer - Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
Carnal Knowledge - Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.
- Celebrating blurry boundaries - Steven Vogel reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
- The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller - First chapter.
- Change of mind - Samuel H. Barondes reviews 'Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel' by Candace B. Pert.
- Chemical Reactions - George Johnson reviews 'Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works' b Ronald Kotulak.
- Cherishment by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard - First chapter.
- The Chicken and the Egg, Together at Last - Nicholas C. Spitzer reviews 'Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology' by Gerald M. Edelman.
The Chimps' Day in Court - Cass R. Sunstein reviews 'Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals' by Steven M. Wise.
- Coming To - William H. Calvin reviews 'The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness' by Antonio R. Damasio.
- Communications from the dead - A. J. Berry reviews 'Dear Mr. Darwin' by Gabrial Dover.
- The counting-house called to account - Steve Blinkhorn on 'How to Build a Mind' by Igor Aleksander.
- Cracking the Genome - Peter P. Tolias reviews Cracking the Genome' by Kevin Davies.
- Creationism by stealth - In 1976, Jonathan Wells, a student in Moon's seminary, answered his leader's call. The result was 'Icons of Evolution'. A review by Jerry Coyne.
- The Dangerous Passion by David Buss - First chapter.
- Dangerous thoughts... - Richard A. Shweder reviews 'In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought' by Carl N. Degler.
Darkness - Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.
- Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney - First chapter.
- Darwin wars - Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
- A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.
- The Darwinian Lie - Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Divided Labours' by Kingsley Browne, and 'The Truth About Cinderella' by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson.
- Darwinian Myths - A review by Massimo Pigliucci.
- Darwinian Soup - W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
- Darwinizing psychology - Andrew Whiten on 'The Evolution of Mind' edited by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colen Allen.
Darwin's dirty secret - Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.
- Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones - First chapter.
- Darwin's Worms - Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
- Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
- Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips - First chapter.
- Debunking DNA - Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.
- Defenders of the Truth - A review by Michael Shermer.
- Descartes' prisoners - Mary Midgley reviews ' Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins.
Designing Man - Robert J. Richards reviews 'Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness' by Ian Tattersall.
- Do Animals Have Culture? - Meredith Small reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
- Dolly part one: the end of the beginning in mammalian cloning? - T Perry and T Wakayama review 'The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly' by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge.
- Don't Bring Home the Bacon - J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
- Don't Know Much Biology - David Papineau reviews 'Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism' by Steven Rose.
- Down the Hatch - Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
- Downloaded at Birth - Steven Rose reviews 'The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics' by Stanislas Dehaene.
- The Editors Recommend - Review of Niles Eldredge's 'The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism'.
Emotion by Dylan Evans - A book review and discussion of Emotion by Dylan Evans from whatamIgoingtoread.com discuss books online.
- The emperor has some clothes - Jochen Braun reviews 'The New Cognitive Neurosciences' edited by Michael Gazzaniga.
- The end of history - Per Bak reviews 'Ubiquity' by Mark Buchanan.
- The ethics of the sand pile - Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think' by Mark Buchanan.
- Even Baboons Get the Blues - Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
- Everybody Into the Gene Pool - John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
- Evolution and the .400 Hitter - David Quammen reviews 'The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History' by Stephen Jay Gould.
- Evolution Between the Ears - Stuart Sutherland reviews 'Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence' by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Evolution Between the Ears - George Johnson reviews 'Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind' by Gerald M. Edelman.
- Evolution in a broader perspective - Christophe Boesch reviews 'Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution' by Alison Jolly.
- Evolutionary Psychology - Valerie Gray Hardcastle reviews 'The Mind's Past' by Michael gazzaniga.
- Evolutionary psychology - Muriel Egerton reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
- Evolutionary psychology - Keith S. Harris reviews 'Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach' by Steven J.C. Gaulin and Donald H. McBurney.
- Evolutionary psychopathology - Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price
- Evolving Questions - John Durant reviews 'Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar' by John C. Greene.
- The evolving theory of evolution - Gunther S. Stent reviews 'The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species' by Steven M. Stanley.
Exceptions that prove the rule - Harold H. Zakon reviews 'Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience' by Howard Hughes.
- Excuse me, sir, your name is the wrong colour - Zoë Mullan reviews 'Synaesthesia: the strangest thing' by John Harrison.
- Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz - First chapter.
- A fantasia of biological feminism - Olivia Judson on 'Woman: An Intimate Geography' by Natalie Angier and 'Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science is Redefining What Makes Us Female' by Dianne Hales.
- Feeling our way - Simon Baron-Cohen reviews 'Emotion: The Science of Sentiment' by Dylan Evans.
- The First Sex by Helen Fisher - First chapter.
- The flower, the gene, the brain and the creative process - Ariel Ruiz i Altaba reviews 'The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves' by E Coen.
- Flying in the face of science - Jerome Boyd Maunsell reviews 'Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
For the love of teaching - Sally Temple reviews 'Development of the Nervous System' by Dan Harvey Sanes, Thomas A. Reh and William A. Harris.
- From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology - Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
- From Grunting to Grammar - Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.
- From the monastery to the laboratory - Brian Charlesworth reviews 'In Mendel's Footnotes: An Introduction to the Science and Technologies of Genes and Genetics from the 19th Century to the 22nd' by Colin Tudge
- Fruit fly genetics - Martin Brookes reviews 'Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
Funny, I thought this was science - Steve Blinkhorn reviews 'Laughter: A Scientific Investigation' by Robert R. Provine.
- Gaia - Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.
- The gene genie - Kenan Malik reviews 'A Monk and Two Peas: the story of Gregor Mendel and the discovery of genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
- The gene is dead; long live the gene - Jerry Coyne on 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
- A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon - First chapter.
- Genes are not so smart - David Papineau reviews 'How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity' by Brian Goodwin.
- Genes, free will and intracranial musings - David Hull reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
- Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza - First chapter.
- Genes 'R' Us - Derek Bickerton reviews 'Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression' by Samuel H. Barondes and 'Born that Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality' by William Wright.
- Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life - Anne Magurran reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
- Genes, Women, Equality - Lisa S. Parker reviews 'Genes, Women, Equality' by Mary Briody Mahowald.
- Genetic determinism - Michael T. Ghiselin reviews 'Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature' by Gabriel Dover.
Genetics - Jonathan A. Epstein reviews 'Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics' by Philip R. Reilly.
- Genome - Terence Kealey reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.
- Goddess Theory - Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.
- Gone Haywire - Michael E. Goldberg reviews 'Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind' by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee.
- The Gulf Between the Ears - Paul Churchland reviews 'The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation' by John Horgan.
- The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson - First chapter.
- He Was Not the Fittest - Geoffrey Cowley reviews 'Charles Darwin: A New Life' by John Bowlby.
- Heartburn - Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.
- Hearts of Darkness - John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.
- The helix files - Kevin Davies reviews 'A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society' by James D. Watson.
- Her Way by Paula Kamen - First chapter.
- History - Miranda Seymour reviews 'Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by James A Secord.
- History of Neuroscience - Paul Crichton reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
- The Homesexual Pedigree - Natalie Angier reviews 'The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior' by Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland.
- How are we possible? - Howard F. Gruber reviews Man, The Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution' by Peter J. Wilson.
- How Far From the Tree? - Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
- How it all happened - Mark Stoneking reviews 'Genes, Peoples, and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Mark Seielstad.
- How the Left Got Darwin Wrong - Review of 'A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation' by Peter Singer.
- 'How The Mind Works' by Steven Pinker - Review by John Sloss.
- How we feel - Ray Dolan reviews 'Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind' by Leslie Brothers and 'What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories' by Paul E. Griffiths.
- Human genome - Robert S. Schwartz reviews 'Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA' by Kevin Davies.
Human genome - Kenan Malik reviews 'The Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome' by Kevin Davies.
- The humane genome project - Geoffrey Carr reviews 'Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics' by Philip R Reilly.
- Humanity by Jonathan Glover - First chapter.
- Iceman by Brenda Fowler - First chapter.
- Icons of Evolution - Jim Dawson reviews a flawed critique of Darwinism written by Jonathan Wells of the creationist Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture.
- Ideas about Life - James L. Gould reviews 'The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance' by Ernst Mayr.
- In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee - First chapter.
- In search of unity - Philip Clayton reviews 'Science and Poetry' by Mary Midgley.
- In the Heart, or in the Head? - Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.
- In the Region of Lost Minds - John C. Marshall reviews 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales' by Oliver Sacks.
- Inside knowledge - Andrew Whiten reviews 'Interpreting Minds: The Evolution of a Practice' by Radu Bogdan.
- Is Our Culture in Our Genes? - Richard M. Restak reviews 'Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind' by Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson.
- It's All in Our Heads - Robert Wright reviews 'The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey Into the Brain' by Paul M. Churchland.
- It's all just meat - Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
- Jacobson's Organ by Lyall Watson - First chapter.
- The Joy of Fun - Judith Viorst reviews 'The Pursuit of Pleasure' by Lionel Tiger.
- Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott - First chapter.
- The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann - First chapter.
- La Difference - Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.
- La Difference - Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.
- The Language of Genes - Steve Jones - A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
The language within us - Michael D. Coe reviews 'The Language Instinct' by Steven Pinker.
- Laugh and the World Laughs with You - Frans de Waal reviews 'Laughter: A Scientific Investigation' by Robert Provine.
- Legacy of a flying tamping iron - Ian Glynn on 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
- Lessons of Fruit Flies, From the Finch's Friend - Richard Bernstein reviews 'Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior' by Jonathan Weiner.
- Life After God - Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
- Life isn't like that - Igor Aleksander reviews 'Creation: Life and How To Make It' by Steve Grand.
- Limits of the Genetic Lexicon - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
- Lingua Ex Machina by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton - First chapter.
- Little Gray Cells - Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.
- Longevity - Howard Chertkow reviews 'The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging' by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
- Look! - Jerry Fodor reviews 'Consilience' by E. O. Wilson.
- Lord of the Drosophilae - Lewis Wolpert reviews 'Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior' by Jonathan Weiner.
- Lyme and punishment - David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.
- Make War, Not Nice! - Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann
- The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman - First chapter.
- Map of Life - Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.
- Maternal Instinct - Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
- The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller - First chapter.
- Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan - First chapter.
- The Mechanics of the Soul - Marcia Bartusiak reviews' How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now' by William H. Calvin.
- The melting-pot that is ALife - John L. Casti reviews 'Creation: Life and How to Make It' by Steve Grand.
The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
- Memoirs of a reluctant cult figure - Crispin Tickell on 'Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist' by James Lovelock.
- Mendel's traits - They must have been sick of pea soup for supper at Mendel's monastery. Genetics owes a debt to those poor monks, says Peter Crane.
- Mental devices - Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini reviews 'Evolution in Mind' by Henry Plotkin.
- Mind games - Marc Bekoff reviews 'Wild Minds' by Marc D. Hauser.
- A Mind is not Described by Numbers - June Goodfield reviews 'The Mismeasure of Man' by Stephen Jay Gould.
- The Mind Mystery - Philip Kitcher reviews 'Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self' by John C. Eccles.
- The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig - First chapter.
- Monkey See, Monkey Do - John Gribbin reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
- The Moral Animal - A review of Robert Wright's 'The Moral Animal'.
- Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy - First chapter.
- Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse.
- The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller - First chapter.
- A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer - First chapter.
- Natural Selections - David Papineau reviews 'Revinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory' by Niles Eldredge, 'River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life' by Richard Dawkins and 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life' by Daniel C. Dennett.
- Nature Girl - Richard Lowry reviews 'Woman: An Intimate Geography' by Natalie Angier.
- Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.
- Neanderthals Need Not Apply - Robert J. Richards reviews 'African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity' by Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie.
- Neurobiology of stress - Edward Marriott reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: Love Death and Baboons in East Africa' by Robert Sapolsky.
- A neurosurgeon probes the nature of pain - Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr
- New Germ Theory - Julius Schachter reviews 'Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments' by Paul Ewald.
No Job for a Woman - Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.
- Nobody Does It Better - Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
- Nonzero by Robert Wright - First chapter.
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny - A review of Robert Wright's book by David Sloan Wilson.
- Not an Inkling - Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.
- Not so crazy after all - Dylan Evans reviews 'Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature' by Daniel Nettle.
- Nymphomania by Carol Groneman - First chapter.
- On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim - First chapter.
- One gene at a time - Melvin Konner reviews 'Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature' by Philip Kitcher.
- One more imprinting review? - Frank Sleutels & Denise P. Barlow review 'Genomic Imprinting: An Interdisciplinary Approach' by R Ohlsson.
- The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin - A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin.
- Palaeoanthropology - Edward J. Larson reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.
- Paul Hoffman's book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Reviews from Nature.
- The Perversion of Darwinism - Robert Wright reviews 'The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science' by Pat Shipman.
- Pitching it right - Alison Jolly reviews 'Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters' by Jane Goodall and 'Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution' by Carole Jahme.
- Planters vs. Weeders - John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
- Pleased to meet you - Kevin Laland reviews 'The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond the Gene' by Lee Alan Dugatkin.
- A point of entry into genomics - Peer Bork and Martijn Huynen review 'Genomes' by T A Brown.
- The politics of the ninth day of creation - Peter N. Goodfellow reviews 'Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA' by Kevin Davies.
- Popular Neuroscience - Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.
- A powerful leap from chaos - Niall Ferguson reviews 'Ubiquity: Why the World Is Simpler Than We Think' by Mark Buchanan.
The Prince of Peas - Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
- Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay - First chapter.
- Rafting Through Evolution - Ricki Lewis reviews 'The River that Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain' by William H. Calvin.
- Rape - Hilary Rose reviews 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.
- Rape as an adaptation - Jerry Coyne and Andrew Berry review 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.
- Rapid Response - Richard M. Restak reviews 'The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life' by By Joseph LeDoux.
- Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise - First chapter.
- Real Boys' Voices by William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster - First chapter.
- Rebel With a Cause - Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
- Review of Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind - Online article by Daniel Dennett.
- The road to the code - Jan Witkowski on 'Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA/The Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome' by Kevin Davies.
- Scary monsters - Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik.
- Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man' - Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam & Eve' by David Horrobin.
- Selfish gene is offside - Tom Wilkie reviews 'Dear Mr Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature' by Gabriel Dover.
- Sex and sensibility - David H. Skuse reviews 'The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together' by Eleanor E. Maccoby.
- She's Gotta Have It - Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.
- Singer in the Rain - A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.
- The Sixth Sense - Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.
- Sleepthinking - Hans Christian von Baeyer reviews 'The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind' by J. Allan Hobson.
- So much for genes - Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
- So, This Parrot Comes Into a Bar and Says . . . - Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
Sociobiology - Keith S. Harris reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
- Software Etc - George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
- Software for the Brain - Nicholas Wade reviews 'Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness' by Daniel C. Dennett and 'The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory' by David J. Chalmers.
- Sounds like a rose to me - For some people sight, smell and colour are jumbled in a way that gives them an extraordinary take on the world, says Alison Motluk. A review of 'Synaesthesia: The strangest thing' by John Harrison.
- Speak, Monkey - George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
- Speaking in too many tongues - Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini on 'Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought' by Philip Lieberman.
- Split Personality - Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in Amrican Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
- Starry tales of genes and geniuses - John Bonner reviews 'Cracking the Genome' (US Title) 'The Sequence' (UK Title)by Kevin Davies.
- Stupid Pet Tricks - James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
- The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article - Kuldip Dhiman reviews 'Emotion: The Science of Sentiment' by Dylan Evans.
- Survival of the Rapist - Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
- Taboo by Jon Entine - First chapter.
- Tackling Race and Sports - Review of 'Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
- Talking About Wu Wei - Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.
- They Dream of Genes - Daniel Callahan reviews 'Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers' by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald.
- Thinking about feeling - Zachary F. Mainen reviews 'The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness' by Antonio R. Damasio.
- Thinking Deeply About Thinking and Having Fun, Too - Christopher Lehman-Haupt reviews 'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker.
- A Three-Billion-Year Memoir - Review of 'Genome' by Matt Ridley.
- Thumbs up for signal work - Simon Baron-Cohen reviews 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' by Charles Darwin.
- To smack or not to smack - Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.
- To the core of consciousness - Ray Dolan reviews 'A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination/ Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination' by Gerald Edelman & Giulio Tononi.
Tool tests challenge chimpanzees - Andrew Whiten on 'Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How The World Works' by Daniel J. Povinelli.
- The Triple Helix - Richard Lewontin - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.
- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism and Environment - A review by Deborah M. Gordon.
- The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism - Jerry Fodor reviews 'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker and 'Evolution in Mind' by Henry Plotkin.
- The trouble with sex - Melissa Hines on 'Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women' by Deborah Blum.
- The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky - First chapter.
- Truth by Felipe Fernández-Armesto - First Chapter.
- Tuned In, Turned On - Lionel Tiger reviews 'Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History' by David Allyn.
- Understanding It All - Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.
- A Universe of Consciousness - Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
- Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.
- The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge - First chapter.
- Wag the Human - James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky.
- The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers - First chapter.
- The Way We Are - Francis Fukuyama reviews 'Human Natures' by Paul Ehrlich.
- We are all contraptions - Michael Ghiselin reviews 'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins.
- Wedding bells and blues - Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.
- Weeping With Those Who Weep - Claire Panosian reviews 'Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears' by Tom Lutz.
- Well Preserved for His Age - David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler
- What is it like to be an animal? - Ralph Adolphs reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
- What Really Goes On in There - George Johnson reviews 'Consciousness Explained' by Daniel C. Dennett.
- What Would Darwin Think? - John Alcock reviews 'Dear Mr Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature' by Gabriel Dover.
What your brain is up to - Stuart Sutherland reviews 'The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman.
- Whatever Turns You On - Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller.
- What's in a Gene? - James Beebe reviews 'The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution Historical and Epistemological Perspectives' by Peter Beurton, Raphael Falk, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
- What's the Forecast? - John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.
- When meat is murder - Could you ever make a meal of your neighbour, asks Simon Ings. A review of 'Cannibal' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
- Where Are We Headed? - Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.
- Which Came First, Tall or Smart? - John Noble Wilford reviews 'From Lucy to Language' by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar.
- Who Is at Home in Our Heads? - Steven Rose reviews The Modular Brain: How New Discoveries in Neuroscience Are Answering Age-Old Questions About Memory, Free Will, Consciousness, and Personal Identity' by Richard M. Restak, 'Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language' by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann, and 'Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. By Antonio R. Damasio.
- Why and how we age - George Martin reviews 'Time of Our Lives' by T B Kirkwood.
- Why black will beat white at the Olympics - Kenan Malik reviews 'Taboo: why black athletes dominate sports and why we're afraid to talk about it' by Jon Entine.
- Why Boys Will Be Boys - Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.
- Why Sex Matters - Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.
- Why so cross? - Thomas Nagel reviews 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins and 'The Pattern of Evolution' by Niles Eldredge.
- Why Who Did What When - Solomon W. Golomb reviews 'Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.
- Wild Minds by Marc D. Hauser - First chapter.
- 'Wilson,' They Said, 'Your All Wet!' - Helen Fisher reviews 'Naturalist' by Edward O. Wilson.
- Women Behaving Badly - Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.
- Woodpecker's Brain Survives, but Will Humans'? - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reviews 'The Diversity of Life' by Edward O. Wilson.
- X + Y = Z - Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.
- Yesterday's news - Glenn McGee reviews 'Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project' by Phillip R Sloan.
- You Can Copy Off Me - Robert Wright reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
You Can't Get There From Here - Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.
- Young Darwin in Love, and at Work - Stephen Jay Gould reviews 'The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume One: 1821-1836' edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith.
- You're Too Kind by Richard Stengel - First chapter.
- You've Got an Attitude - Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.
