- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, Viking
- Sperm Wars by Robin Baker, Fourth Estate
- In the Blood by Steve Jones, HarperCollins
- Charles Darwin鈥檚 Letters edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Cambridge
- Narrow Roads of Gene Land by W. D. Hamilton, W. H. Freeman
- Dinosaur in a Haystack by S. J. Gould, Jonathan Cape
- The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice by Peter Medawar, Oxford
- Clock of Ages by John Medina, Cambridge
- Thread of Life by Susan Aldridge, Cambridge
- Bright Paradise by Peter Raby, Chatto & Windus
Famous for his excellent work on the trickier questions of evolution
(altruism, violence, gambling), W. D. Hamilton鈥檚 first book is selling well on
the strength of the lucid essays that accompany the papers. Well worth waiting
for鈥攁nd the next volume appears with the spring.
Information supplied by Blackwell鈥檚, Oxford (Fax 01865 794143) for
bestsellers in the biological sciences first published in hardback or paperback
within the past 12 months. For more reviews see Planet Science at
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