Fine Lines reviewed in Nature, The New Yorker and Washington Post

Blackwell FineLines200My favorite novelist, Vladimir Nabokov, is also my favorite evolutionary theorist.  There is a fine line between art and science.  In this beautiful coffee-table book, edited by Stephen Blackwell and Kurt Johnson, I have an essay called, “Chance, Nature’s Practical Jokes and the ‘Non-utilitarian Delights’ of Insect Mimicry.”

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art hit the bookstores this week.  So far it’s been favorably reviewed in The New Yorker and the Washington Post.

And in Nature:

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