Fumphunt PickleSprinkles's "Excellent Biology Books"

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This list started after one of my favorite professors in college sent me this link:
http://online.anu.edu.au/BoZo/jennions/books2read.html
I’ve since added more that I or other people think are truely excellent biology type books.
These are popular science books, they grab your attention and try to teach you something. Read these books if you want to increase your understanding of ecology or evolutionary biology.
comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

  1. 5.
    The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
    by Jonathan Weiner

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  2. 8.
    Life's Devices
    by Steven Vogel

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  3. 9.
    Modeling Nature (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
    by Sharon E. Kingsland

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  4. 10.
    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
    by Matt Ridley

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  5. 12.
    Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
    by Tim Birkhead

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  7. 16.
    Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
    by Paul A. Colinvaux

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  8. 19.
    Mendel's Demon
    by Mark Ridley

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  9. 23.
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  10. 24.
    The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
    by Steven Pinker

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  11. 26.
    Last Chance to See
    by Douglas Adams

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Created by Fumphunt PickleSprinkles on Apr 22, 2006.
 

Comments

I suggest — 2 years ago

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.


neitherherenorthere
Bowling Green

i've read a few of these — 3 years ago

did you not think the seven daughters of eve was good? I really liked it.