Historian explains how randomness rules both the universe and our lives
SCIENCE A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS by Sean B. Carroll (Princeton University Press £18.99, 224 pp) Sixty-six million years ago, the world nearly came to an end. An asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with devastating global effects. The dinosaurs were effectively wiped out. Mammals, better equipped to survive, were able to take their … Read more