Below is a list of all book reviews published to date in reverse chronological order. If you prefer a visual list, you might also want to browse my Instagram or Pinterest accounts.

March 2023

1. Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
2. The Invention of Green Colonialism

February 2023

3. Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art
4. Parasites: The Inside Story
5. The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
6. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change

January 2023

7. The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
8. The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06
9. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
10. Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution

December 2022

11. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
12. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
13. The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts
14. Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time
15. The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

November 2022

16. The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition)

October 2022

17. When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

September 2022

18. Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
19. Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
20. From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution
21. The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs
22. Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy

August 2022

23. Tears for Crocodilia: Evolution, Ecology, and the Disappearance of One of the World’s Most Ancient Animals
24. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
25. When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
26. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
27. Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
28. Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender

July 2022

29. Imbattable, Tome 3: Le Cauchemar des Malfrats
30. The Earth – A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms
31. The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
32. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

June 2022

33. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
34. The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
35. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
36. Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
37. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

May 2022

38. Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
39. The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
40. The Process of Animal Domestication
41. Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea
42. The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

April 2022

43. The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male
44. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us
45. Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature

March 2022

46. The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
47. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
48. A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
49. Otherlands: A World in the Making
50. Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
51. Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

February 2022

52. Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
53. Paleontology: An Illustrated History
54. Drawing and Painting Dinosaurs: Using Art and Science to Bring the Past to Life
55. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
56. A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
57. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved

January 2022

58. Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present
59. The Ocean’s Whistleblower: The Remarkable Life and Work of Daniel Pauly
60. Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
61. The Incredible Journey of Plants
62. Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature

December 2021

63. Observing Evolution: Peppered Moths and the Discovery of Parallel Melanism
64. Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
65. Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
66. Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
67. The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age

November 2021

68. Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
69. Aesop’s Fables
70. The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
71. A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
72. London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
73. Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures

October 2021

74. Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature
75. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
76. Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis
77. Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
78. Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore

September 2021

79. The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy
80. Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth
81. Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
82. Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
83. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
84. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse

August 2021

85. First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
86. The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
87. Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals
88. On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
89. Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
90. The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
91. The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

July 2021

92. A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist
93. Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
94. Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets
95. The Science of Middle-Earth: A New Understanding of Tolkien and His World
96. Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
97. What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design

June 2021

98. The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
99. Vampirology: The Science of Horror’s Most Famous Fiend
100. Dead Zones: The Loss of Oxygen from Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and the Ocean
101. Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
102. Spider Webs: Behavior, Function, and Evolution
103. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
104. Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils

May 2021

105. Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
106. Lessons from Plants
107. A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
108. Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park

April 2021

109. The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
110. The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
111. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
112. We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think
113. The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis
114. New World Monkeys: The Evolutionary Odyssey
115. How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 & Beyond

March 2021

116. A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition)
117. The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed
118. Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
119. Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
120. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
121. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

February 2021

122. Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World (Second Edition)
123. The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack
124. Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources
125. Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

January 2021

126. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
127. Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans
128. Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity
129. Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment

December 2020

130. Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
131. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
132. The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
133. Neanderthal Language: Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins
134. Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands / Urzeitinseln voller Leben
135. Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
136. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
137. Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects

November 2020

138. Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas (2-Volume Set)
139. Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
140. Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
141. Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful
142. Finding our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea – the Milky Way’s Home

October 2020

143. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
144. Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
145. Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters
146. Planetary Accounting: Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity
147. Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
148. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog
149. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

September 2020

150. Sticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
151. Oxford Dictionary of Zoology (Fifth Edition)
152. The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
153. The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
154. Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide

August 2020

155. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
156. Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
157. The Inside Out of Flies
158. The Secret Life of Flies
159. Volcanotectonics: Understanding the Structure, Deformation and Dynamics of Volcanoes
160. Volcanoes (Second Edition)

July 2020

161. COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One
162. Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness
163. On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins
164. Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to be Animals
165. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
166. Understanding Coronavirus

June 2020

167. Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory
168. Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant
169. The Flaws That Kill Our Democracy
170. Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

May 2020

171. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
172. How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
173. Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
174. Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet
175. Ocean Circulation in Three Dimensions

April 2020

176. Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life
177. More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – And What Happens Next
178. Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
179. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Second Edition)
180. In Defence of Democracy
181. Against Democracy
182. The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop

March 2020

183. Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose
184. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
185. Disaster by Choice: How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes
186. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
187. Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth
188. Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can
189. A Book of Rather Strange Animals: Highlighting the Wonders of Evolution and the Extraordinary Diversity of Life
190. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
191. Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research

February 2020

192. The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate
193. Ocean Recovery: A Sustainable Future for Global Fisheries?
194. A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins
195. End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
196. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
197. Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes
198. The Invertebrate Tree of Life

January 2020

199. The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them
200. Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing World
201. The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
202. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
203. Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime

December 2019

204. The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
205. Superlative: The Biology of Extremes
206. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
207. American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodocus
208. Rage Inside The Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All

November 2019

209. How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
210. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
211. Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean
212. Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
213. Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization
214. The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
215. Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore

October 2019

216. The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution
217. An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds
218. The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past
219. Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From
220. The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution
221. Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
222. The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future

September 2019

223. The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
224. Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
225. Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis
226. Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals
227. Tracking the Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats
228. Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet
229. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
230. The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
231. The Dark Side of the Hive: The Evolution of the Imperfect Honeybee
232. Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameraman

August 2019

233. Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves
234. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
235. The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them
236. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
237. Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
238. How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls: Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future
239. Everything is Fucked: A Book about Hope
240. Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
241. Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
242. Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North

July 2019

243. Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things
244. Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
245. Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
246. Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
247. Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
248. Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Second Edition)
249. Superior: The Return of Race Science
250. Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

December June 2019

251. Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
252. The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
253. Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
254. The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
255. Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation
256. Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere
257. I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
258. Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

May 2019

259. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
260. Origins: How the Earth Made Us
261. Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature
262. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
263. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
264. Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us
265. Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
266. The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
267. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
268. Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

April 2019

269. Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies
270. Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society
271. Imbattable, Tome 1: Justice et Légumes Frais & Tome 2: Super-Héros de Proximité
272. Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
273. Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
274. Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
275. The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
276. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
277. The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
278. Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

March 2019

279. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
280. The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent
281. Lost Anatomies: The Evolution of the Human Form
282. Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums
283. Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
284. A Matter of Taste: A Farmers’ Market Devotee’s Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table
285. The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
286. Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
287. Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be
288. Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
289. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

February 2019

290. The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend
291. Structural Geology (Second Edition)
292. The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
293. Essentials of Geology (13th Edition)
294. The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How To Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
295. Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves

January 2019

296. Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives
297. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
298. Sloths! A Celebration of the World’s Most Maligned Mammal
299. Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
300. Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
301. Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style (Second Edition)
302. Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World
303. Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
304. The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
305. The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
306. Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present
307. Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution

December 2018

308. Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
309. End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
310. The Art of Animal Anatomy: All Life is Here, Dissected and Depicted
311. Energy: A Human History
312. Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
313. King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology
314. When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
315. Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms

November 2018

316. The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative
317. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
318. Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
319. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
320. Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature
321. The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
322. The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
323. Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth
324. Volcanoes: Encounters Through the Ages
325. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
326. The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart

October 2018

327. How Scientific Progress Occurs: Incrementalism and the Life Sciences
328. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th Anniversary Edition)
329. The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
330. Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
331. Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
332. Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator
333. Microbes from Hell
334. The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
335. Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go
336. The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
337. Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food (Second Edition)

September 2018

338. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
339. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
340. The Palaeoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art
341. The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy
342. Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution
343. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
344. The Tectonic Plates are Moving!
345. Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez
346. The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
347. Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections

August 2018

348. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
349. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
350. The Art of Naming
351. Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
352. Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism
353. Should We Control World Population?
354. An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition
355. The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution
356. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
357. Earth History and Palaeogeography

July 2018

358. Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science
359. The Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence That Explains the World
360. After Man: A Zoology of the Future
361. Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution
362. A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
363. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
364. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals
365. Unnatural Selection
366. The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It

June 2018

367. Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
368. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet
369. Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention
370. Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria

May 2018

371. The Oceans: A Deep History
372. Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time
373. The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved
374. The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation
375. A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
376. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
377. Eye of the Shoal: A Fish-Watcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
378. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
379. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

April 2018

380. Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth’s Essential Life Forms
381. The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
382. What It’s Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
383. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
384. Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life
385. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
386. Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

March 2018

387. Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma
388. Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics
389. Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth
390. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

February 2018

391. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
392. Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know
393. Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries
394. The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet

January 2018

395. Getting Science Wrong: Why the Philosophy of Science Matters
396. Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans
397. Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
398. Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
399. The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional

December 2017

400. Dinosaur Art 2: The Cutting Edge of Paleoart
401. Shark Attacks: Myths, Misunderstandings and Human Fear
402. Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation
403. Patrons of Paleontology: How Government Support Shaped a Science
404. The Big Conservation Lie: The Untold Story of Wildlife Conservation in Kenya

November 2017

405. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion
406. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire
407. All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing
408. The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise (Second Edition)
409. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research
410. Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR-Cas9
411. Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
412. A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
413. Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

October 2017

414. Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980
415. Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
416. Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
417. Deep Thinkers: An Exploration of Intelligence in Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
418. Are Dolphins Really Smart? The Mammal Behind the Myth
419. The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
420. Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century
421. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
422. Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

September 2017

423. Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
424. Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
425. Improbable Destinies: How Predictable is Evolution?