100,000 years on your dad's tail
The Journey of Man
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Look to Darwin, not skeletons
Genes, Memes and Human History
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Hard life giving you the hump?
Life at the Limits
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Reason to battle the odds
Rationality and Freedom
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Those eureka moments
Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws
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Newshound with eyes to the skies
The Moonlandings
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A loving look at
The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House
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Bloody road to glasnost
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
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Power that lags behind genius
Leonardo's Laptop
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From apostle to muted prophet
The Long Recessional
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An attack mismanaged
Against Management
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about the decline of the American South: "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces...
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Laurie Taylor Column
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir, I am writing to protest about the treatment accorded to Poppleton in last week's analysis of university wealth. Let me begin by correcting two serious errors of...
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Vying for the common good?
Open competition for research funds is the only fair way to go, says Steven Schwartz The country, we are told, would be much better if research funds were further concentrated in a handful of...
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Leader: Who will pay to restore health of staff pensions?
The precarious finances of Britain's universities remain uncontestable - deficits loom and it will be a long time before the first fruits of top-up fees filter through to depleted coffers. But this...