Adrian Barnett

How the world made us

Barnett reviews The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart by Mark Maslin.

Seeding the future

Barnett reviews The Triumph of Seeds: How grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history by Thor Hansen

On loving lemurs

Barnett reviews Thank You, Madagascar: The conservation diaries of Alison Jolly by Alison Jolly.

She sells seashells

Barnett reviews Spirals in Time: The secret life and curious afterlife of seashells by Helen Scales.

A lush, green future?

Barnett reviews Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the environment by Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Paul R. Ehrlich.

Beautiful but doomed

Barnett reviews The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, A Message from Martha: The extinction of the passenger pigeon and its relevance today by Mark Avery, and A Feathered River Across the Sky: The passenger pigeons flight to extinction by Joel Greenberg.

Out of Africa, or not

Barnett reviews Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How evolution shapes our loves and fears by Gordon H. Orians.