Fumphunt PickleSprinkles's "Excellent Biology Books"

Matt Ridley’s (he’s good, isn’t he?) The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns On Nurture. Also Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s The Woman That Never Evolved and either (or both) Natalie Angier’s Woman: An Intimate Geography or The Beauty of the Beastly. The latter of Angier’s is a collection of essays on various topics-biochemistry and genetics, highlights of specific scientists, etc.