Biology

The Overstory

Richard Powers is a professor at the universities of Stanford and Illinois, as well as author of twelve award-winning novels. The Overstory could be classified as a "thesis novel" that tries to answer the...

Darwin: Portrait of a Genius

The historian Paul Johnson, centers on the controversial figure of Charles Darwin. For many scientists Darwin is a model to follow, but they leave behind the fact that in order to arrive at his conclusions...

The Darwin Myth

The Darwin Myth is a short biography of Charles of Darwin and a discussion of his ideas and their implications. Darwin, the grandson of an enthusiastic proponent of evolution, was born in a...