Mark Ridley, Evolution, Blackwell Science; 2003; ISBN: 1405103450 Advanced undergraduate, postgraduate text - if you want to understand evolutionary science, read this superb book |
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Douglas Futuyama, Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates Incorporated, 1998, ISBN: 0878931899 Another excellent -advanced undergraduate text |
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Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140291229 Readable pugnacious enjoyable popular account of evolutionary theory |
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Stephen J Gould, Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Harvard University Press; 2000; ISBN: 0674006135 The grand master's final magnum opus |
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Steve Jones, Darwin's Ghost or Almost like a Whale, Ballantine, 2000, ISBN 0-345-42277-5 Origin of Species updated with modern evidence |
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Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, Basic Books; 2002, ISBN: 0465044255 A readable book on evolution from the grand old man of the evolutionary synthesis |
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Matt Ridley, Genome, Fourth Dimension Publications, 2000, ISBN: 185702835X Fascinating book on the human genome - a spellbinding tale for each chromosome |
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Michael Ruse, Darwin and Design, Harvard Press, 2003, ISBN: 067401023X Excellent monograph on the relationships between science and religion, and on evolution and its critics |
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Richard Dawkins, A Devils' Chaplain, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003, ISBN: 0297829734 Dawkins wonderful and moving book of essays |
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Jennifer Clack, Gaining Ground, Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0253340543 If you want to understand the emergence and evolution of tetrapods , this is the book for you. |
Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained, Heinnemann 2001, ISBN 0-434-00843-5 How evolutionary psychology and the evolution of human cognition explains humans' propensity to be religious |
Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind, Thames and Hudson, 1996, ISBN 0-500-28100-9 Evolutionary psychology given the archaeological treatment |
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Robert Axelrod, Evolution of Co-operation, Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140124950 Seminal text on how evolution can explain co-operation |
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Matt Ridley, Origins of Virtue, Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140244042 Matt Ridley updates and interprets Axelrod - and explains how evolution can account for human co-operation, kindness and virtue. |
Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin, Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity, Free Press; 1999, ISBN: 0743237722 A wonderful book about the history of the cosmos and how it will unfold in the future ages |
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Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam; 1995, ISBN: 0553175211 The world-famous book by the world-famous Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge |
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Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, 2001, Bantam Press; ISBN: 0593048156 A Brief History of Time reworked with additional material and better graphics |
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Alan Rubin, Disturbing the Solar System, Princeton University Press; 2002, ISBN: 0691074747 Understanding the gravitational mess that is our galactic neighbourhood |
Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense, Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Picador, 1998, ISBN: 0312204078 Sokal and Bricmont's demolition of the foolishness that is post-modern academic philosophy - this book grew out of the fantastic Sokal hoax |
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Robert Ehrlich, 8 Preposterous Propositions, Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691099995 Ehrlich discusses eight controversial scientific ideas |
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Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World, Fourth Estate, 2004, ISBN: 0007140967 How cults, quackery, irrational panics, moral confusion and mumbo-jumbo got the upper hand in the 20th century over reason and enlightenment |
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