I recently completed reading one of the most stimulating books (1) on the conceptual aspects of evolution that I have read in many years. The author, Peter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher of biology at Harvard. He has written widely on topics in the philosophy of science and is the author previously of an exceptionally thoughtful [...]
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Quirks of Human Anatomy by Lewis Held, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Book Review
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The emergence of Darwinian (evolutionary) medicine had led to a renaissance of many long forgotten biological topics, among which are atavistic traits (traits of our ancestors). These traits that disappeared long ago from our lineage are occasionally reappearing in present human populations, [...]
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Occasionally, those of us well embedded in science need an outsider, some distance removed from the action, to cast a critical eye at how we operate. A book I highly recommend for any practising scientist to read is ‘Fabulous Science: fact and fiction in the history of scientific discovery’ (Oxford University Press, 2002) by John [...]
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