Book Reviews

Please contact me in the comments below or email me (darwinsbulldog AT gmail DOT com) about book or documentary reviews on The Dispersal of Darwin.

Previous reviews:

Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution, by Theodore W. Pietsch

The Humblebee Hunter, Inspired by the Life & Experiments of Charles Darwin and his Children, written by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by Jen Corace

A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, by Lawrence M. Krauss

Bang! How We Came to Be, written and illustrated by Michael Rubino

Charles Darwin and the Mystery of Mysteries, by Niles Eldredge and Susan Pearson

Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace, edited by Charles H. Smith & George Beccaloni

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (2nd ed.), by Eugenie C. Scott

Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution, by Adrian Desmond and James Moore

The Monkey Bible: A Modern Allegory (includes The Line, a companion music CD by Eric Maring), by Marx Laxer

The Flower Hunters, by Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin

Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature, by Brian Switek

Darwin’s Dogs: How Darwin’s pets helped form a world-changing theory of evolution, by Emma Townshend

Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, by Jim Endersby

The Curious Mind of Young Darwin, by Sara Bellis, Caroline Cook, and Jenni Taylor

Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty’s Navy, by Michael S. Reidy

Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, by D. Graham Burnett

The Voyage of the Beetle: A Journey around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrated by Rosie, an Articulate Beetle, by Anne Weaver and illustrated by George Lawrence

Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750, by Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park

Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography, by Janet Browne

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