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The Earth: An intimate history by Richard Fortey, HarperCollins
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The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Allen Lane/Penguin
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Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin, Allen Lane/Penguin
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Opening Skinner鈥檚 Box by Lauren Slater, Bloomsbury
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Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi, HarperCollins
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Seashore by Peter Hayward, Collins
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Rhythms of Life by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman, Profile
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The Fly in the Cathedral by Brian Cathcart, Viking/Penguin
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100 Suns: 1945-1962 by Michael Light, Jonathan Cape/Random House
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The Human Mind by Robert Winston, Bantam/Transworld
Information supplied by Amazon.co.uk for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in the UK within the past year.
Autumn begins early in the book world. Star turn has to be Richard Dawkins鈥檚 The Ancestor鈥檚 Tale, subtitled 鈥淎 pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution鈥�. With Chaucer as model and Dawkins as writer, it should be worth waiting for. Watch out for Harry Collins鈥檚 Gravity鈥檚 Shadow from Chicago. He reports his 30 years鈥� work tracking the research into gravitational waves. Jonathan Cape has an intriguing duo: John Brockman on what turns a child into a scientist and John Barrow on infinity. Steve Fuller鈥檚 How to Be An Intellectual is a must have, too.