The other book I read over Christmas was "Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum" by Richard Fortey. This is an interesting tour of some of the past and present personalities behind the Natural History Museum, London. I found...
Ben Goldacre is one of my favourite writers, I turn to his column in the Guardian each Saturday before anything else. I read his excellent book "Bad Science" over Christmas, and I really recommend it. He looks primarily at the reporting of science in the...
I just received a copy of "Reading the story in DNA; a beginner's guide to molecular evolution" by Lindell Bromham, OUP 2008, ISBN: 978-0-19-929091-8I have only looked at it quickly but it is very impressive. I like the writing style. It is well produced. Figures...
OK, so I was going to write about bioinformatics and phylogenetics in this blog, and here is my second post already that ignores both!I just read a paper testing the relationship between beer consumption and publication output of ecologists in the Czech Republic. Apparently...
So I don't hate all books. Over Christmas I read Michael Lynch's new book “The Origins of Genome Architectureâ€. One of the best books I have read in a long time. Well-written, clearly argued, well referenced and important. If you like molecular evolution, genomics or...
