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Jostling For Tadpole Position

Philip MacCann PROMISCUITY: AN EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF SPERM COMPETITION AND SEXUAL CONFLICT by Tim Birkhead Faber, £9.99, pp. 261 A ristotle knew his chickens. In partic- ular,......

Missing The Connections

Jane Ridley THE BIOGRAPHER'S TALE by A. S. Byatt Chatto, £15.99, pp. 265 T his is a story about a biographer who is writing the biography of a biographer. It starts in a......