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Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution
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Selfish rebels in a parliament of genes
The Major Transitions in Evolution
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Songs in the key of life
The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
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Swept away by the current
River out of Eden
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We are all Gaullists now
De Gaulle and the United States
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Wild about chimpanzees
Chimpanzee Cultures
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Worms in the Big Apple's core
Scenes from the Life of a City
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author whose work reflected what the footman saw: "Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is...
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Speaking Volumes: History
Olwen Hufton on Elsa Morante's History . To select a single book from the thousands which have engaged me in one way or another during the passage from undergraduate to professor is a challenging...
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Someone to watch over you
Claire Sanders looks at the pressures on PhD supervisors. How would you feel if your PhD students taped their supervisions?" The question, posed by John Wakeford of Lancaster University to an...
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Take me to your leader
Aisling Irwin and Olga Wojtas journey to the heart of anthropology. Not unusually, the phone rings in anthropologist Nigel Barley's comfortable office, at the Museum of Mankind in affluent central...
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Which doctor debate
Support for the PhD by publication rather than by thesis is growing. Ayala Ochert reports. In Cambridge anyone can do it, in Oxford nobody can, and elsewhere you have to be a member of staff to do it...
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How to avoid falling prey to the Cinderella syndrome
Colin McGuckin has some tips on ways to raise the cash for those summer sorties to conferences abroad. It is that time of year again. The summer is coming and your PhD supervisor is heading off to...
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Far from the madding crowd
Wai Jing Kee is working on a new insight into skin cancer at University College, London. Ayala Ochert reports. Like a department full of academics jostling each other to get on in their field, the...
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Science and the bigger picture
Tom Wakeford has written a book about making science more relevant to the environment. Ayala Ochert met him. After spending a year on the Nasa planetary biology internship, Tom Wakeford is still...