You might not think that chimpanzees solving animal puzzlers - like how to get hold of an out-of-reach banana - would illuminate scientific thinking, let alone the scientific thinking of Albert ...

Raymond Tallis's books are not often easy to summarise, and not always easy to finish. He worked for years as a doctor, with a scientific speciality in the treatment of epilepsy and stroke victims, ...

“A venerable orang-outan”: editorial cartoon depicting Charles Darwin as an ape from The Hornet, 1871. Author unknown Welcome to Peer Review, a series in which we ask leading academics to review books ...