The Runty Prehistoric Mammals That Outlasted the DinosaursBEASTS BEFORE US The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution By Elsa Panciroli Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.” That wouldn’t have mattered if… Sep 09 21September 09, 2021Article at New York Times
A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning UsBOTTLE OF LIES The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom Who would ever guess that Gandhi helped start an industry whose corruption now plagues us all? Yet here he is, early in Katherine Eban’s “Bottle of Lies,” barefoot in his Ahmedabad ashram,… May 13 19May 13, 2019Article at New York Times
Survival of the Prettiest(“The Evolution of Beauty” by Richard Prum was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. For the rest of the list, click here.) For readers, Charles Darwin, born in 1809, apparently never gets old. Books by Darwin… Sep 18 17September 18, 2017Article at New York Times
‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger“Soon enough,” Alice Dreger writes at the beginning of her romp of a book, “I will get to the death threats, the sex charges, the alleged genocides, the epidemics, the alien abductees, the anti-lesbian drug, the unethical ethicists, the fight with… Apr 17 15April 17, 2015Article at New York Times
Christine Kenneally’s ‘Invisible History of the Human Race’Of Christine Kenneally’s father’s father — a man neither Kenneally nor her father ever knew, a man who did the deed requisite to reproduction and promptly vanished — she asks, “Did he leave anything more significant than the loud bang of a door shut… Oct 16 14October 16, 2014Article at New York Times
The Fault in Our DNAIn his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came to rule the world largely because their rich outbred their poor, and thus embedded their superior genes and values throughout the nation. In her… Jul 10 14July 10, 2014Article at New York Times
Psychiatry: A very sad storyDavid Dobbs enjoys a brilliant look at the making of DSM-5, the new 'psychiatrists' Bible'. When it is published this month, the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM-5, will mark well over a… May 01 13May 01, 2013Article at Nature
