- Hidden Histories of Science edited by Robert Silvers, Granta
- Life鈥檚 Grandeur by Steven Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape
- The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley, Viking
- Evolution by Mark Ridley, Blackwell Science
- Improving Nature by Martin Reiss and Roger Straughan, Cambridge University Press
- The Narrow Road of Gene Land by W. D. Hamilton, W. H. Freeman
- Demonic Males by Richard Wrangham, Bloomsbury
- Ion Channels by David Aidley and Peter Stanfield, Cambridge University Press
- Plan and Purpose in Nature by George Williams, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Bright Paradise by Peter Raby, Chatto & Windus
The rush to publish science causes log jams: Williams鈥� new book due out in
April almost overtakes his last. The Pony Fish鈥檚 Glow is subtitled 鈥淎nd Other
Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature鈥�, so sounds like complementary book.
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