The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, Ebury Press, £16.99, ISBN 0091882737
LIKE most other projects these days, every popular science book needs a Big Idea. The Science of Discworld II promises to be very popular – Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels sell well over a million a year, while Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen are maths and science bestsellers in their own right – so it needs a really big Big Idea.
Fortunately, it’s got one: a new theory of what makes us human. According to the Discworld trio, this is simply our ability to tell stories. Forget language (you…
