Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature (opens in new tab)

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and againWhen Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution and British colonialism were in the ascendant. Charles Dickens had published Hard Times five years earlier; Queen Victoria nominally ruled a fifth of the world’s population. Darwin, writes science writer Rowan Hooper, crafted his evolutionary theory to deliver what he figured his audience wanted to ...