Reviews

Humans

How Homo sapiens became world’s dominant species

'First Peoples' dispels old ideas about human evolution and tells an updated tale of how Homo sapiens came to dominate the world.

Genetics

Extinct species may get a second chance

An evolutionary biologist explains the obstacles scientists must overcome to revive extinct species.

Plants

The art and science of the hedgerow

Spiky hawthorn trees have found many uses despite their unforgiving nature, Bill Vaughn writes in ‘Hawthorn.’

Science & Society

Histories left behind by the dispossessed

‘Dispatches from Dystopia’ chronicles adventures in modernist wastelands to recount tales of the invisible and the overlooked, the exiled and the dispossessed.