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Popular science books to put on your Christmas list

Drawing from the CultureLab library, we pick the most desirable of this year's popular science titles

23 November 2011

1

Retired palaeontologist Richard Fortey meanders into and out of deep time, chasing the species that have evaded extinction, and drawing on a career’s worth of fascinating anecdotes.

2

In this impeccably researched book Richard Panek explores why we still don’t know the nature of dark matter and dark energy, even though they make up 96 per cent of the universe.

3

The Fundamental Fysiks Group was an entourage of freewheeling physicists in Berkeley, California, who pushed the boundaries of “experimental” science in the 1970s.

4

A superb comic book that tells the story of evolution on Earth from the…

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