Nicholas Wade
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution, a journalist covering genetic advances for "The New York Times" examines the genetic basis of race and its role in human history.
Author
Language
English
Description
Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more likely explanation. His inference is based on specific research being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Institute's lack of adequate safety precautions, together with the continuing absence...
Author
Language
English
Description
For at least the last fifty thousand years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given, either by believers or atheists, to the question of whether this universal human behavior might have an evolutionary basis. Did religion evolve, in other words, because it helped people in early societies survive?In this original and controversial book, Nicholas Wade, a longtime reporter for the New York Times's...