Non-Fiction: Darwin’s Devices by John Long

Robotics viewed through a biologist’s lens, that’s a bit of what Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Tell Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology (Basic Books) boils down to. But with scientific precision from a professor/author with a poet’s soul. It’s intensely exciting stuff.

Long is a professor of biology and cognitive science at Vassar where he has famously used his