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David Quammen

David Quammen is the author of fifteen books, including Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. His latest book is The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. (April 2020)

The Brilliant Plodder

We can’t stop reading and talking about Charles Darwin, 138 years after his death.

Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants: A Tour of His Botanical Legacy

by Ken Thompson

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

by Elizabeth Hennessy

Evolution Before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834

by Bill Jenkins

April 23, 2020 issue

A poster for a US public health campaign urging precautions against malaria, circa 1920

Suckers

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

by Timothy C. Winegard

December 5, 2019 issue

Leopard cubs at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, India, 2014

The Concrete Jungle

Evolution is still happening, sometimes briskly, and in response to the single greatest agent of environmental change on the planet: us.

Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

by Menno Schilthuizen

November 8, 2018 issue

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