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'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

21 August 2017

A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe

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

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'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

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