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Category Archives: Life Science and Evolution
Great book about worms reissued in time for spring gardening
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill has just reissued a book that may give readers a not unwelcome taste for worms. Here is my review of the book from 2004. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy … Continue reading
Review of Wired for Culture by Mark Pagel
Review of Wired for Culture by Mark Pagel Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel (Norton, 432 pages, $29.95, February, 2012) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz (Copyright 2012 by Alfred B. Bortz, all rights reserved) … Continue reading
Review of First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs and the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
Review of First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs and the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman Simon & Schuster, $26.00, 224 pages, April 2011 Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz
Searching for Martian DNA
I recently began giving a school visit talk called “The Truth About Space Aliens: What We Know and What We Don’t Know About Life on Other Worlds based on my “Cool Science” book, Astrobiology. This news release will certainly give … Continue reading
Follow science blogger/children’s author on Facebook
If you are a regular reader of my blog postings, you know that I am a passionate, opinionated middle-of-the-roader. I bring the same passion to my writing for young readers, but I want them to learn to form their own … Continue reading
Review of The Evolutionary World by Geerat Vermeij
The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization by Geerat Vermeij (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 336 pages, $26.99, December, 2010) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz