From Physics World, Leonard Susskind on Darwin's legacy; the idea that quantum mechanics can explain many fundamental aspects of life is resurging, as Paul Davies reveals; a look at how physics can inspire biology; and an article on applying the tools of physics to fundamental questions in biology. A review of Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True. A review of Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane. A review of Robert J. Richard’s The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought. Anatomy of a controversy: Ida, a fossil celebrity: What's so special about the squashed-flat remains of an adapiform from the Messel pit? A review of Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human by Jeremy Taylor (and more and more). A review of Who Owns You? The

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