Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”
The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...
Tag: Charles Darwin
How Darwin Seduced the Devout Asa Gray
Below find #7 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s stay at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog here. This ...
Reef Madness 11: Darwin’s First Theory of Evolution
This is the 11th installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. (Earlier installments...
Reef Madness 8: A Dissipated, Low-Minded Charles Darwin
This is the eighth installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. (Earlier installment...
Reef Madness 6: The Death of Louis Agassiz
This is the sixth installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. The prior installment...
Asa Gray Goes Postal
Asa Gray, who keeps coming up this blog lately, has been honored without place on one of the lovelier first-class stamps I have seen come out of the U.S. Postal...
Reef Madness 5: How Charles Darwin Seduced Asa Gray
I bring here the sixth entry in my partial serialization of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which finds Louis...
Reef Madness 3: Louis Agassiz, TED Wet Dream, Conquers America
This is the third of several installments of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. The first two brought us Louis A...
Free Science, Funny Science, Darwin, & Some Meta: Neuron Culture’s Top 5 for May
1. The race for May’s top spot wasn’t even close: Free Science, One Paper at a Time, my rescued feature about how too much of science is trapped in...
Reef Madness 2: The One Darwin Really DID Get Wrong: Rumble at Glen Roy
This is the second of several excerpts from my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. This is from Chapter Two. Series ...