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In his highly entertaining and enlightening book, the acclaimed geneticist and author Steve Jones offers a landmark exploration of men. Y:The Descent of Man is a collection of facts, lore & mythology about males with topics like baldness, erections, fidelity, aggression, genetics, etc.

In his highly entertaining and enlightening book, the acclaimed geneticist and author Steve Jones offers a landmark exploration of maleness. With effervescent wit, Jones argues that men, biologically speaking, are the true second sex. Here he lays out the cases for and against masculinity — exploring every biological aspect from the genesis of the Y chromosome onward[Read More]

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Almost Like a Whale: The ‘Origin of Species’ Updated by Steve Jones
In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of evolution, the grammar of the living world.It reveals ties between cancer and the genetics of fish, between brewing and inherited disease, between the sex lives of crocodiles and the politics of Brazil. Darwin used the biology of the nineteenth century to prove his[Read More]

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The Selfish Gene : Richard Dawkins
30th Anniversary edition

I remember the controversy that surrounded this book when it was first published. Richard Dawkins forced us to re-examine evolution, redefine genetics and adapt our concept of free choice by asking the question “What if “our” genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes?” He’s gone on to write more controversy, but it’s nice to see the book that started it all is worthy of an anniversary edition.

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we[Read More]