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Birds & People

Mark Cocker

Jonathan Cape

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live

Marlene Zuk
WW Norton Ltd

The Cancer Chronicles

George Johnson

Bodley Head

Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation

Gunter P Wagner

Princeton University Press, £27.27

Dolphin

Alan Rauch

Reaktion Books, £9.99

African Natural Plant Products Vol II

H R Juliani, J E Simon and Chi-Tan Ho (Eds)

American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press, £97.00

The Compatibility Gene

David M Davis

Allen Lane

Plenty of Room for Biology at the Bottom: An introduction to bionanotechnology (2nd ed)

Ehud Gazit and Anna Mitraki

Imperial College Press