As promised in my last blog, I am returning with a few suggestions of recent science books that are suitable for gift-giving. I haven’t read these in detail, but they are published by reputable publishers and written by credible authors. This is the first of several postings, organized by subject area.
In this case, we have a half-dozen titles about our planet and the life it supports.
We begin with a coffee table book, Unnatural Selection by Katrina van Grouw. On the cover is the avian skeletal version of the famous ape-to-human evolution drawing. The publisher describes it as “A lavishly illustrated
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