Despite instant global communications, goods still travel at a comparatively plodding pace.
Mixed-race offspring in colonial America came less from master-slave relationships than from white servants pairing with slaves or former slaves.
As reviewer Charlotte Allen notes, "Anyone seriously interested in [Flannery O'Connor's] well-deserved place in America’s literary pantheon should take a look" at two new books.
Humans may be weaning themselves of natural selection, effectively halting their own evolution.
Journalists often boast of writing the first draft of history, but they can get the story wrong. But historians ought to borrow their storytelling flair.
Scientists marvel over DNA's structure and coding, even as they puzzle why it seems to never change.
NATURAL LIFE:
Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism.
By David M. Robinson. Cornell Univ. Press. 234 pp. $24.95
Truman Capote's 1970s flameout was so spectacular that it obscured his earlier, brighter years.
Sperm donation has involved into a multimillion-dollar industry, opening the way for parents to shop for the attributes they value highly.