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Seeing The Future Fail To Work

Richard 011ard INSIDE STALIN'S RUSSIA: THE DIARIES OF READER BULLARD, 1930-1934 edited by Julian and Margaret Bullard Day Books, £19.50, pp. 310 I t is early to start picking......

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,......