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With Alice Ball, Review of G. McGhee, Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019). Quarterly Review of Biology 95(2020): 267. Review | find the book

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With Ahmed AboHamad, Review of J. W. Schopf, Life in Deep Time: Darwin's "Missing" Fossil Record. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2019), Quarterly Review of Biology 95(2020): 153-4.
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Review of M. Luck, ed. Biology in Transition:  The Life and Lectures of Arthur Milnes Marshall (Pelagic Press, 2018), Quarterly Review of Biology 94(2019): 286-7.
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Review of N. Eldredge, T. Pievani, E. Serrelli, and I. Temkin, eds., Evolutionary Theory: A Hierarchical Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Quarterly Review of Biology 92(2017): 317.
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"What do Paleontologists Mean by 'Species'?" Review of W.D. Allmon and M.M. Yacobucci, eds., Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Ecology.
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  Review of Brian Treanor, Bruce Benson, and Norman Wirzba, eds., Being-in-Creation: Human Responsibility in an  
  Endangered World
(Fordham University Press, 2016), Quarterly Review of Biology 92: 173-174.
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With Miranda Young, Review of Cynthia Willett, Interspecies Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2014), Quarterly Review of Biology 91: 202.
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Review of Beth Shapiro, How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Princeton University Press, 2015), Quarterly Review of Biology 91: 73.
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Review of Lisa Randall, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs (Harper Collins, 2015), at the Extinct Blog.
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Review of Kostas Kampourakis, Understanding Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Quarterly Review of Biology 90: 215-16.
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“Neo-Naturphilosophie, Review of Michael Ruse, The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 97(2014): 477-485.    
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Review of Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry, eds. Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Quarterly Review of Biology 89: 161-2. 
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Review of John N. Thompson, Relentless Evolution (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Quarterly Review of Biology 89: 173-4.
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Review of Robert J. Asher, Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 10 August, 2012. 
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Review of B. Calcott and K. Sterelny, eds., The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011), Reports of the National Center for Science Education 33(3).
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Review of Elliott Sober, Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory, Quarterly Review of Biology 87 (June 2012): 138.
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Review of Environmental Ethics, 6th Edition, Louis Pojman and Paul Pojman, eds. (Wadsworth), Teaching Philosophy 35(2012): 448-451.


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Review of Lori Gruen, Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2011), for ISEE Newsletter 23(2): 18-19.
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With Andrew Margenot, Review of The Deep Structure of Biology: Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal?, edited by Simon Conway Morris. Templeton Foundation Press, 2008.  Reports of the National Center for Science Education. 30(November-December 2010): 26-7. 
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“The Progress of Darwinism:  A Review of Timothy Shanahan, The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation, and Progress in Evolutionary Biology,” Biology and Philosophy, 21(2006): 277-285.
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“Altruism—Is it Still an Anomaly?  A Review of Nigel Barber, Kindness in a Cruel World:  The Evolution of Altruism,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(2005): 317-18.


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Review of Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism, by Susan Haack. Disputatio 17(2004): 87-93.
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