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‘Beauty of the Beasts’ Review: The Gross and the Grimy

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By David P. Barash
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
One of my daughters and I once wanted to keep some Madagascar hissing cockroaches as pets, only to be vetoed by my wife. She might have changed her tune (but probably not) if she could have heard Jo Wimpenny wax lyrical about how cockroaches are “anatomical and physiological marvels.” It is easy enough to love dogs, cats and bunny rabbits, but what about roaches, wasps, snakes, vultures, rats and other largely unloved critters? “Beauty of the Beasts” elucidates their true role in nature.
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‘The Power of Life’ Review: Lamarck Revisited

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By David P. Barash
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The name Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has long carried a black mark in the annals of science. The 18th-century French noble was the guy who got evolution wrong, believing that characteristics acquired during an organism’s life could be passed down directly to its descendants. Charles Darwin, with his ideas of undirected variation and natural selection, described what was really happening.
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A Soulless Argument

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By Carl R. Trueman, David P. Barash, Michael A. Fragoso
| Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC)
Published February 15, 2026 The Washington Free Beacon Dr. David Barash begins this book by commenting that he did not put “his heart and soul” into it because he does not believe there is any such thing as a “soul.” After reading it, I can only assume he has serious doubts about the philosophical category of “substance” too, as he has also put very little of that into it.
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