The untold story of feathers
In Feathers: The evolution of a natural miracle, Thor Hanson skilfully combines science and anecdote to give us popular natural history at its best
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Evolutionary explanation for what ails the west
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Whales in close-up
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Why the universe wasn’t fine-tuned for life
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A stem cell retrospective
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Of astronauts and artists: The romance of space flight
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Where’s my Holodeck? The latest interactive movie news
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Going ape: Ultraviolence and our primate cousins
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How hellish smoke gave Tennessee a poisoned desert
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Volcanoes that shaped our world
Disrupting air travel for a few days is nothing compared with the cataclysms Clive Oppenheimer describes in Eruptions that Shook the World
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Intrigue in the Amazon
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The brave story of how smallpox was wiped out
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Intel anthropologist: Fieldwork with the silicon tribe
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The prison of our beliefs and how to escape it
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