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A great gift for your favourite Darwinists: 50 pages of clear thinking from
John Maynard Smith in Shaping Life. Part of a series of pocket books based on
the Darwin@LSE lectures, here you’ll find out what we know about how evolution
acts—and the scene of action, how genes shape embryos. Colin Tudge tackles
Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers, a lament for the loss of the good life:
agriculture equals hard work. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
£4.99 each.

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