But none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel.

TO THE FINLAND STATION—Edmund Wilson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night ...

Geerat Vermeij's latest book explores a new approach to thinking about the evolution of life through the accumulation of 'power,' defined as the ability of organisms to take up or expend energy. (UC ...

You can keep and enjoy the original recipe while evolution tweaks the extra copy so that it makes risotto instead. Now imagine the entire recipe book is copied -- twice -- and the possibilities it ...

Right off the bat, readers of her book encounter her unusual mix of goofy ... fat and monogamy and unripe and unready babies and the evolution of dads and the secret purpose of grandmas and ...