Bluebirds, babies, and orgasms: the women scientists who fought Darwinism’s sexist myths
by Angela Saini
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Patricia Gowaty were pioneers. Yet their work is still contentious—and their contribution all too often ignored
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Did Darwin miss something? The 100-year-old book that rivalled “The Origin of Species”—and still shapes science today
by Phillip Ball
In “On Growth and Form,” D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson argued that organisms are shaped less by adaptive evolutionary function and more by deep mathematical laws. To understand his argument, you need only look at the combs made by bees
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How the human got his paintbrush
by Phillip Ball
What can evolution tell us, if anything, about human achievements in the arts? Not as much as EO Wilson thinks
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Fighting Aids: getting pills into bodies
by Elizabeth Pisani
A new account of the early days of Aids shows how cleverly activists influenced the powerful
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Intimacy rebooted: why we shouldn’t fear the rise of sex tech
by Kate Devlin
Isolation and loneliness are seen as the fault of technology when, on closer inspection, that same technology can bring us closer together
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Some surgeons may be psychopaths—but that’s no bad thing
by Joanna Bourke
Two new books explore how surgeons must be resolute and merciless
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