Nicholas Wade Books
Before the Dawn
“Meaty, well-written.” —Kirkus Reviews“Timely and informative.” —The New York Times Book Review“By far the best book I have ever read on humanity’s deep history.” —E. O. Wilson, biologist and auth...
Read MoreThe Faith Instinct
A New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet litt...
Read MoreA Troublesome Inheritance
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful t...
Read MoreA Natural History of Vision
This illustrated survey covers what Nicholas Wade calls the "observational era of vision," beginning with the Greek philosophies and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope in the l...
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