Evolution, genetics and human origins

Species change over time as natural selection favours heritable variations.

Selection acts on genes; bodies are vehicles that genes build to copy themselves.

The gene from Mendel and Darwin to genome editing, beside a family's mental illness.

How natural selection, not a designer, produces the complexity of living things.

Sex evolved as a defence against parasites, and that shapes human mating.

Twenty years of watching Galapagos finches show evolution happening in real time.

Evolutionary psychology explained through Darwin's own life and behaviour.

How cooperation and morality evolved from self-interest, via the prisoner's dilemma.

Twenty-three chapters, one per chromosome, each using a gene to open a subject.

How genes and experience interact, each shaping how the other acts.

How ancient DNA has rewritten the story of human prehistory and migration.

How genes and experience interact, each shaping how the other acts.

Human behaviour read from evolutionary biology; a Munger latticework staple

Genes as a river of digital information; a short Dawkins primer

Talent, training and genetics in elite athletic performance

Behavioural genetics on how much of an outcome is inherited

Fictional sexual scenes, each read by an evolutionary biologist for its instincts.

How lactose tolerance, malaria resistance and blue eyes evolved in 10,000 years.