Aventis Prize Shortlist

Aventis Prize 2005 Shortlist

**Reviews of Aventis prize shortlisted books**
Title	Author	Publisher
The Ancestor’s Tale	Richard Dawkins	Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older	Douwe Draaisma	Cambridge University Press
Matters of Substance: Drugs - and why everyone’s a user	Griffith Edwards	Penguin, Allen Lane
The Earth: An Intimate History	Richard Fortey	HarperCollins
The Human Mind and how to make the most of it	Robert Winston	Bantam Press/ Transworld Publishers
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another	Philip Ball	William Heinemann