GH ’s Simon Swift considers what future generations might make of our decisions about what to keep and what to let go of

The most searched-for words and people might surprise you Isn’t it amazing how quickly we just accept a new way of doing things? Back in the 1990s the word googol meant nothing unless you were an adva

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by Harriet Lane (£20, HB, Orion) What lies beneath the image we construct of ourselves? Ruth, newly divorced and drifting as her daughter leaves home, feels invisible – until Sookie, her dazzling form

She grew up believing in divine creation, but a radical rethink led Ella Al-Shamahi to evolutionary biology. Now, the presenter of the BBC science series Human shares her story