In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

WE close most biographies with the exclamation “too long and far too many letters,” but the three volumes of the “Life and Letters of Charles ... “Origin of Species” was first published ...

Socialist Voice – February 12, 2009 is Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin ... Darwin set aside “the big book on species” he had barely begun, and quickly wrote a much ...

I refer to his second most important book, The Descent of Man, written in 1871. As Wiker points out, "Reading Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man forces one to face as unpleasant truth: that if ...

The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket launches from Van Horn, Texas, on March 31, 2022. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Spring is the time of year when my friends remember what a strange job I have, because a stripy insect has just appeared in their kitchen and they are panicking. "It's huge!" one squeals. "Help ...

And for binge watchers, it’s also the perfect chance to study up by diving into the books that are being adapted into movies and TV shows in 2025. Here are some of the thrillers, romances ...

In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital technology, surveillance capitalism and her family’s immigrant experience. In “Close to Home,” Thor ...

What Are the Percy Jackson Books About? Imagine a world where modern Greek gods have children with the powers of demigods. That's the fantastical concept at the center of the Percy Jackson and The ...

Way back in 1859, Charles Darwin wrote: ‘The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail… makes me sick!’ If he had made that statement today, there would be calls for his arrest and a FIR lodged against ...