
It is always nice to sit back and indulge in a little fun reading every now and again, especially if day in and day out you spend your time reading dense scientific articles. It’s doubly nice when the fun reading is educational, and triply nice when you learn something new. Being particularly interested in [...]

It’s that time of year again, and as much as I make it a habit to espouse with the greatest of intensity my disgust at the very idea of Christmas I secretly love it because it means people buy me things… Specifically, they buy me books. Now, it’s never been difficult for me to formulate [...]

The Archaeology of Human Bones is one of the now many, but at once numbered, textbooks available on the subdiscipline of bioarchaeology – the scientific study of human remains in the historical record. Though dated, this book remains a valuable resource for students of archaeology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Simon Mays, senior scientific [...]

What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Disciplineis the first book I have read on the topics of either the philosophy of biology or the history of biology, and as it turns out I could not have chosen a better introduction. Ernst Mayr, recently deceased Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and [...]