Sean B. Carroll

Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards 2021: PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Waterstones Best Books of 2020: Popular Science American Scientist's 2020 Science Book Gift Guide Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these...

One of today's most accomplished biologists and gifted storytellers reveals the rules that regulate all life. How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning...

Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards 2021: PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Waterstone's Best Books of 2020: Popular Science American Scientist's 2020 Science Book Gift Guide Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these...

The never-before-told account of the intersection of two of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyse genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and...