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At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant...

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist,...

The Earth has come a very long way from...

A "NEW YORK TIMES "NOTABLE BOOK "[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging...

Ever since Greek antiquity "disembodied knowledge" has often been...

The revolutionary scientific book that explained evolution to millions...

Cooperative Evolution offers a fresh account of evolution consistent...

The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our...

The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our...

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated...

Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil...

This book tells the story of the development of...

The million-copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into...

The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our...

'Not all lost cities are real, but this one...

Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet...

THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary...

'The narrative voice is yarning, chatty and sardonic, but...

A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2020The theory of evolution...

Since ancient times, we have tried to make sense...

The forgotten garden which inspired Charles Darwin becomes the...

From fossil-hunting to the end of faith- a gripping...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a...