Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs
20 June 2018
The more pristine the forest, the more attractive it looks to conservationists. The reality is more complex, argues an eclectic new book, The Ethnobotany of Eden
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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals
18 October 2017
Who says the thoughts and perceptions of animals are closed to us? Adrian Barnett finds out what it is like to be a...
We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong
3 May 2017
Many male animals sport dazzling displays to attract a mate. But a new book says we may have misunderstood Darwin – and this is all about arbitrary aesthetics
