Editor's Summary
3 May 2007
Spring loaded
In Almost Like a Whale, geneticist Steve Jones 'updated' Darwin's Origin of Species. Now in Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise, he does the same for Darwin's earlier Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. With 150 years or so of hindsight, and with coral in the news as a victim of climate change, Jones has plenty of material to play with. Daniel Pauly — who says he'd have bought the book just for the cover — reviews Coral as one of the 'good reads' in this year's Spring Books special. Elsewhere, Kathleen Taylor reviews The Canon by Natalie Angier. This targets the same market as Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything but takes a different tack — and is shorter! Pat Shipman reviews The Invisible Sex, an antidote to male-dominated anthropology.
Spring Books: A strange sense of self
Am I a mirage?
doi:10.1038/447029a
Spring Books: James Bond with a feather duster
doi:10.1038/447030a
Spring Books: The dark heart of the bomb
doi:10.1038/447031a
Spring Books: Trouble in paradise
doi:10.1038/447033a
Spring Books: Unearthing gender issues
doi:10.1038/447034a
Spring Books: When the numbers don't add up
doi:10.1038/447035a
Spring Books: Science set in stone
doi:10.1038/447037a
Spring Books: An ode to symmetry
doi:10.1038/447038a