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John Whitfield is a London-based freelance science writer. He writes mostly about evolution, ecology and conservation; his work has appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, Seed, New Scientist and others.
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In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature
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- Epilogue
- Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
- Chapter 12: Geographical Distribution, continued
- Chapter 11: Geographical Distribution
- Chapter 10: On the geological succession of organic beings
- Chapter 9: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
- Chapter 8: Hybridism
- Chapter 7: Instinct
- Chapter 6: Difficulties with Theory
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John Whitfield
I am a London-based freelance science writer. I did a PhD at Cambridge on the evolution of soldier behaviour in aphids, and then worked for the journal Nature in a variety of jobs between 1997 and 2003.
I went freelance to write my first book, In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature, published by the National Academies Press in 2006. This looks at the idea that, underneath the complexity of the living world, there are general laws that can explain life's patterns and diversity. In particular it looks at efforts to explain the scaling of metabolic rate with body size, and the 'metabolic ecology' that's grown out of that work.
Besides Nature, I've also written news, features and reviews for Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Seed, Discover, London Review of Books, Financial Times, Sunday Times, BBC Wildlife, and most other people who'll have me. And I'm working on a sideline in music journalism, writing about gamelan for the Guardian and Songlines.
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