Some Reading for Wallace Year

by Greg Mayer I should probably have posted something like this earlier, but here are a few recommended books about and by Wallace. It’s an idiosyncratic list, reflecting what was interesting and available to me, but might still be useful as a starting point. Wallace is of course mentioned in many books on the general … Continue reading Some Reading for Wallace Year

Darwin’s Ghosts

by Greg Mayer A new history of evolutionary biology before Darwin, Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott, appeared earlier this summer, and an interview with the author appeared in yesterday’s New York Times (it was posted to the Times‘ website several days earlier). I must admit that the subtitle made me … Continue reading Darwin’s Ghosts