Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution by Gary Cziko MIT Press, $17.50, £14.95 Reviewed by David Hull in Nature 377, 494 494 (1995).

The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets by Henk Tennekes MIT Press, $12.50, £10.50 Reviewed by C. J. Pennycuick in Nature 381, 126 126 (1996).

Artificial Minds by Stan Franklin MIT Press, $17.50, £14.95 Reviewed by Terrence J. Sejnowksi in Nature 378, 101 101 (1995).

Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay MIT Press, $15, £12.50 Reviewed by D. F. Swaab in Nature 382,682 682 (1996).

The Evolution of Communication by Marc D. Hauser MIT Press, $35, £29.50 Reviewed by Derek Bickerton in Nature 382, 592 592 (1996).

Autumn Books Next week's issue will contain Nature's Autumn Books supplement, with reviews on the topics of time, eggs and sperm, French natural history, anti-reductionism, meta-analysis and much more.