Psychology
- 1081
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
- A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.
- 1083
- The Century of the Gene
- Anne Magurran reviews this book by Evelyn Fox Keller. Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life.
- 1086
- The Dream of the Human Genome
- A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".
- 1089
- The Language of Genes - Steve Jones
- A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
- 1092
- The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore
- A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
- 1095
- The Origin of Language by Desmond Fearnley-Sander
- When did language arise, and how? And why? If it is of value for the survival of a species, as it clearly is, then why has only one species succeeded in acquiring full-blown language? An interesting discussion of Terrence Deacon's 'The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain'.
- 1096
- The Prince of Peas
- Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
- 1097
- The Sixth Sense
- Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.