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Fumphunt PickleSprinkles's "Excellent Biology Books"

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. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins
  
2. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by David Quammen
  
3. The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
  
4. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared M. Diamond
  
5. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
  
6. Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (Penguin Science)
by Karl Sigmund
  
7. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
by Tim Flannery
  
8. Life's Devices
by Steven Vogel
  
9. Modeling Nature (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
by Sharon E. Kingsland
  
10. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
  
11. Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by Richard Fortey
  
12. Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
by Tim Birkhead
  
13. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
by Richard Dawkins
  
14. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.)
by Matt Ridley
  
15. Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
by Steven Vogel
  
16. Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
by Paul A. Colinvaux
  
17. Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia's Exotic Invaders
by Tim Low
  
18. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester
  
19. Mendel's Demon
by Mark Ridley
  
20. Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by Carl Zimmer
  
21. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
22. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by Jared Diamond
  
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 The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
by Robert Wright
  
24. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
  
25. Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life
by Steven N. Austad
  
26. Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams
  
27. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
  
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Created by Fumphunt PickleSprinkles on Apr 22, 2006.