BOOK REVIEWS

Sexus Botanicus: The Love Lives of Plants

Joanne Anton, translated by Erik Butler
MIT Press, £26.00

Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

Michael J Benton
Thames & Hudson, £25.00

Explaining Life Through Evolution

Prosanta Chakrabarty
MIT Press, £21.00

Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future

Steve Nicholls
Head of Zeus, £35.00 

The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Laws

Tim Blackburn
Island Press, £20.00

Understanding Intelligence

Ken Richardson
Cambridge University Press, £11.99

Inequality: a Genetic History

Carles Lalueza-Fox
MIT Press, £22.50

The Hidden World: How insects sustain our life on Earth today and will shape our future

George McGavin
Welbeck, £14.99