Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...
A conversation with Francis Collins. Editor’s note: Science in Focus is on vacation in July, so we’re going to the archives for science-related pieces from the pages of Books & Culture. This week ...
Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...