Evolution, Zoology 304

Zoology 304

Book List

Below are recommended readings for book reviews. This list is by no means exclusive, but if you'd like to read and review a book that is not on this list, please check with your instructor (dgking@siu.edu).

To see a brief description or review of any book, copy and paste the book's title, in quotes, into the search window at Amazon.com. Follow the links to the book and then to "editorial reviews" (not "customer reviews"). Alternatively, paste the title into a general-purpose search engine (e.g., Yahoo.com) and collect some more wide-ranging listings. For expert reviews, try New York Times Review of Books.

CAUTION: Evolution forms a dubious foundation for much modern myth-making. Some authors have agendas that extend beyond scientific information -- they use evolution to rationalize attitudes that more properly belong in the domains of economics, politics, philosophy, religion (see scientism). Be alert to underlying presumptions, worldviews, and perspectives, whether explicitly stated or not.

Even within science, there are divergent stances on major issues, such as modes of speciation, prevalence of adaptation, methods of phylogenetic analysis, and extent of genetic specification of complex traits. Several of the authors below do not hesitate to trash the work of others on the list (often the hostility is mutual). It can be quite interesting to locate and read opposing views.

304 index page

Alphabetic listing by title

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Alphabetical listing by author

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Listing by topic

Introductory overviews

Essay collections (mixed subjects)

Classic works (famous books -- some are readable, some are heavy)

History of evolutionary thought

Apologetics for evolution

Sex

Genetics

Paleontology

Speciation

Case studies

Adaptation

Development

Philosophy

Unclassified

Other acceptable topics (titles not listed; please see your instructor for approval of any unlisted title).

evolution of specific taxa (e.g., birds, ants, whales, primates, snails, etc.)

evolution in specific environments (caves, deserts, etc.)

scientific monographs and topical collections of articles, aimed primarily at post-graduate professionals

origin of life

human evolution

evolution of mind, language, culture

evolutionary psychology

evolutionary anthropology

sociobiology

anti-evolution writing (including "creationism", "intelligent design", etc.)

Alphabetical listing by TITLE (listing by author) (listing by topic)

Abusing Science, the Case against Creationism, Philip Kitcher
Adaptation and Natural Selection, George C. Williams
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Richard Dawkins
The Ant and the Peacock. Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today, Helena Cronin
Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life, Carl Zimmer Carl Dennis Buell
At the Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Jonathan Weiner
The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links Between Evolution and Behavior, Timothy H. Goldsmith
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
The Book of Life, Stephen Jay Gould
Bully for Brontosaurus, Stephen Jay Gould
But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy, Michael Ruse
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth A. Lloyd
The Causes of Evolution, JBS Haldane
Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings, Mark Ridley
Cradle of Life, J. William Schopf
Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom, Wallace Arthur
The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. 2d edition, Michael Ruse
Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution, Lynn Helena Caporale
Darwinism Defended, Michael Ruse
The Darwin Reader, Charles Darwin (Mark Ridley, editor)
Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It, Loren Eiseley
Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett
Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria, Tijs Goldschmidt (Sherry Marx-Macdonald, Translator)
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated, Steve Jones
Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World, Michael Rose
The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man, Andrew Brown
Defending Evolution in the Classroom: A guide to the creation/evolution controversy, Brian J. Alters, Sandra Alters
Dinosaur in a Haystack, Stephen Jay Gould
Dr. Tatiana's Guide to Sex to All Creation, Olivia Judson
Eight Little Piggies, Stephen Jay Gould
The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language, John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary
The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates, Michael Ruse, E.O. Wilson,
From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design, Sean B. Carroll, et al.
Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution & History of Life: A Science Masters Series Book (2003), Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution (an Oxford Reader), Mark Ridley (editor)
Evolution and Escalation, Geerat J. Vermeij
Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays, Ernst Mayr
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations: The Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions, Sewall Wright
Evolution and the Myth of Creationism - A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate, Tim Berra
Evolution and the Theory of Games, John Maynard Smith
The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Michael Ruse
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives, David Sloan Wilson.
Evolution: The History of an Idea, Peter J. Bowler
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Carl Zimmer
Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos, Rosemary Grant, Peter Grant
The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul, Richard Morris
Experiments on Plant Hybrids, Gregor Mendel
The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?, David Raup
The Flamingo's Smile, Stephen Jay Gould
Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Species, Menno Schilthuizen
Genetics and the Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky
The Growth of Biological Thought, Ernst Mayr
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, Stephen Jay Gould
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Ending the False War Between Science and the Humanities (2003), Stephen Jay Gould
How the Leopard Changed His Spots: The Evolution of Complexity, Brian Goodwin
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches, Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant
The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution, Ian Tattersall, Donald C. Johanson
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould
The Immense Journey, Loren Eiseley
Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease, Steven A. Frank
Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives, Robert T. Pennock (editor)
Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems, Niles Eldredge and Marjorie Grene
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Stephen Jay Gould
Liaisons of Life: From Hornworts to Hippos, How the Unassuming Microbe has Driven Evolution, Tom Wakeford
Life Cycles, John Tyler Bonner
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Richard Fortey
Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry 1860-1940, Peter J. Bowler
The Lying Stones of Marrakech, Stephen Jay Gould
Man's Place in Nature, Thomas Henry Huxley
Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time, Robert A. Martin
Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology, Michael Ruse
Mother Nature: Natural Selection and the Female of the Species, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Mystery of Mysteries : Is Evolution a Social Construction, Michael Ruse
Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex, W.D. Hamilton
A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior, Adrian Forsyth
On Human Nature, E.O. Wilson
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought, Ernst Mayr
The Origin of Animal Body Plans: A Study in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Wallace Arthur
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
The Panda's Thumb, Stephen Jay Gould
Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, Carl Zimmer
The Pattern of Evolution, Niles Eldredge
Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View, Roger Lewin
Philosophy of Biology, Elliot Sober
The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature, George C. Williams
The Possible and the Actual, Francois Jacob
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition, Tim Burkhead
Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory, Niles Eldredge
River out of Eden, Richard Dawkins
Science As a Way of Knowing. The Foundations of Modern Biology, John A. Moore
Science on Trial - The Case for Evolution, Douglas Futuyma
Selection in Natural Populations (for scientists), Jeffry B. Mitton
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology, Kim Sterelny Paul E. Griffiths
Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals, Marlene Zuk
Sex Wars (Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex Ratios), Michael Majerus
Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life, Henry Gee (editor)
Speciation in Birds, Trevor Price
Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species, Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Systematics and the Origin of Species, Ernst Mayr
Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy, Michael Ruse
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution, Carl Zimmer (978-09815194-7-0).
EO Wilson calls this "the best written and best illustrated introduction to evolution of the Darwin centennial decade, and also the most conversant with ongoing research. It is excellent for students, the general public, and even other biologists.”
Tempo and Mode in Evolution, George Gaylord Simpson
The Theory of Evolution, John Maynard Smith
The Tower of Babel: the Evidence against the New Creationism, Robert T. Pennock
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist, Ernst Mayr
Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey
The Triumph of Evolution, Niles Eldredge
What Evolution Is, Ernst Mayr
The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Evolution, Christopher Wills
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare, Paul Colinvaux
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Understanding Patterns of Life on Earth, Chris Lavers
Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do), Eric P. Widmaier
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, R. Nesse and G. Williams
The Woman That Never Evolved, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould

Alphabetical listing by AUTHOR (listing by title) (listing by topic)

Brian J. Alters, Sandra Alters, Defending Evolution in the Classroom: A guide to the creation/evolution controversy
Wallace Arthur, Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
Wallace Arthur, The Origin of Animal Body Plans: A Study in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Tim Berra, Evolution and the Myth of Creationism - A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate
John Tyler Bonner, Life Cycles
Peter J. Bowler, Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry 1860-1940
Peter J. Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea
Andrew Brown, The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man
Tim Burkhead, Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
Lynn Helena Caporale, Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution
Sean B. Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Sean B. Carroll et al., From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
Paul Colinvaux, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Helena Cronin, The Ant and the Peacock. Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin (Mark Ridley, editor), The Darwin Reader
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden
Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype
Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable
Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species
Loren Eiseley, Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It
Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
Niles Eldredge, Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory
Niles Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution
Niles Eldredge, The Pattern of Evolution
Niles Eldredge and Marjorie Grene, Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems
Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior
Richard Fortey, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Richard Fortey, Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution
Steven A. Frank, Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
Douglas Futuyma, Science on Trial - The Case for Evolution
Henry Gee (editor), Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life
Tijs Goldschmidt (Sherry Marx-Macdonald, Translator), Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria
Timothy H. Goldsmith, The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links Between Evolution and Behavior
Brian Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed His Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin
Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile
Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies
Stephen Jay Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Stephen Jay Gould, The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Stephen Jay Gould, I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould, The Book of Life
Stephen Jay Gould, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Ending the False War Between Science and the Humanities (to be published, 2003)
Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution & History of Life: A Science Masters Series Book (to be published, 2003)
Rosemary Grant, Peter Grant, Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos
Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches
JBS Haldane, The Causes of Evolution
W.D. Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, The Woman That Never Evolved
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Natural Selection and the Female of the Species
Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature
Francois Jacob, The Possible and the Actual
Steve Jones, Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana's Guide to Sex to All Creation
Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science, the Case against Creationism
Chris Lavers, Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Understanding Patterns of Life on Earth
Roger Lewin, Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
Michael Majerus, Sex Wars (Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex Ratios)
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species
Robert A. Martin, Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time
John Maynard Smith, Evolution and the Theory of Games
John Maynard Smith, The Theory of Evolution
John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is
Ernst Mayr, Systematics and the Origin of Species
Ernst Mayr, One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
Ernst Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist
Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought
Gregor Mendel, Experiments on Plant Hybrids
Jeffry B. Mitton, Selection in Natural Populations (for scientists)
John A. Moore, Science As a Way of Knowing. The Foundations of Modern Biology
Richard Morris, The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul
R. Nesse and G. Williams, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Robert T. Pennock, The Tower of Babel: the Evidence against the New Creationism
Robert T. Pennock (editor), Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives
Trevor Price, Speciation in Birds
David Raup, Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
Mark Ridley, The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Michael Ruse, But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy
Mark Ridley (editor), Evolution (an Oxford Reader)
Michael Rose, Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World
Michael Ruse, Darwinism Defended
Michael Ruse, The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. 2d edition
Michael Ruse, The Evolution-Creation Struggle
Michael Ruse & E.O. Wilson, The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates
Michael Ruse, Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ruse, Mystery of Mysteries : Is Evolution a Social Construction
Michael Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy
Menno Schilthuizen, Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Species
J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life
Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species
George Gaylord Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution
Elliot Sober, Philosophy of Biology
Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Ian Tattersall, Donald C. Johanson, The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution
Geerat J. Vermeij, Evolution and Escalation
Tom Wakeford, Liaisons of Life: From Hornworts to Hippos, How the Unassuming Microbe has Driven Evolution
Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Eric P. Widmaier, Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do)
George C. Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection
George C. Williams, The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature
Christopher Wills, The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Evolution
David Sloan Wilson, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature
Sewall Wright, Evolution and the Genetics of Populations: The Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Carl Zimmer, The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (978-09815194-7-0).
EO Wilson calls this "the best written and best illustrated introduction to evolution of the Darwin centennial decade, and also the most conversant with ongoing research. It is excellent for students, the general public, and even other biologists.”
Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell, At the Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell, At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life
Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals

Listing by SUBJECT (listing by title) (listing by author)

Introductory overviews (other subjects)

Charles Darwin (Mark Ridley, editor), The Darwin Reader
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Niles Eldredge, The Pattern of Evolution
Stephen Jay Gould, The Book of Life
Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution & History of Life: A Science Masters Series Book (to be published, 2003)
Steve Jones, Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
Robert A. Martin, Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time
John Maynard Smith, The Theory of Evolution
John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is
George C. Williams, The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature
David Sloan Wilson, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Carl Zimmer, The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (978-09815194-7-0).
EO Wilson calls this "the best written and best illustrated introduction to evolution of the Darwin centennial decade, and also the most conversant with ongoing research. It is excellent for students, the general public, and even other biologists.”
Essay collections (other subjects)
Paul Colinvaux, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Charles Darwin (Mark Ridley, editor), The Darwin Reader
Henry Gee (editor), Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life
Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin
Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile
Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies
Stephen Jay Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Stephen Jay Gould, The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Stephen Jay Gould, I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Ending the False War Between Science and the Humanities (2003)
Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
Francois Jacob, The Possible and the Actual
Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
Mark Ridley (editor), Evolution (an Oxford Reader)
Classic works (Some of these are readable, others are quite heavy.) (other subjects)
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin (Mark Ridley, editor), The Darwin Reader
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species
Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Rosemary Grant, Peter Grant, Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos
JBS Haldane, The Causes of Evolution
Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature
Ernst Mayr, Systematics and the Origin of Species
Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
Mark Ridley (editor), Evolution (an Oxford Reader)
George Gaylord Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution
George C. Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection
Sewall Wright, Evolution and the Genetics of Populations: The Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
History of evolutionary thought (other subjects)
Peter J. Bowler, Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry 1860-1940
Peter J. Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea
Andrew Brown, The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man
Loren Eiseley, Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It
Niles Eldredge, Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory
Ernst Mayr, One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought
John A. Moore, Science As a Way of Knowing. The Foundations of Modern Biology
Richard Morris, The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul
Mark Ridley (editor), Evolution (an Oxford Reader)
Michael Rose, Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World
Michael Ruse, The Evolution-Creation Struggle
Michael Ruse & E.O. Wilson, The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates
Michael Ruse, The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. 2d edition
Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Apologetics for evolution (other subjects)
Brian J. Alters, Sandra Alters, Defending Evolution in the Classroom: A guide to the creation/evolution controversy
Wallace Arthur, Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
Tim Berra, Evolution and the Myth of Creationism - A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden
Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype
Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable
Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Niles Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution
Douglas Futuyma, Science on Trial - The Case for Evolution
Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature
Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science, the Case against Creationism
Robert T. Pennock, The Tower of Babel: the Evidence against the New Creationism
Michael Ruse, Darwinism Defended
Michael Ruse, But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy
David Sloan Wilson, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
George C. Williams, The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature
Speciation (other subjects)
Tijs Goldschmidt (Sherry Marx-Macdonald, Translator), Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria
Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches
Ernst Mayr, Systematics and the Origin of Species
Trevor Price, Speciation in Birds
Menno Schilthuizen, Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Species
Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species
Sex and/or sexual selection (other subjects)
Tim Burkhead, Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
Helena Cronin, The Ant and the Peacock. Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior
W.D. Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, The Woman That Never Evolved
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Natural Selection and the Female of the Species
Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana's Guide to Sex to All Creation
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
Michael Majerus, Sex Wars (Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex Ratios)
Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals
Genetics (other subjects)
Lynn Helena Caporale, Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution
Sean B. Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Sean B. Carroll et al., From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Steven A. Frank, Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
Gregor Mendel, Experiments on Plant Hybrids
Christopher Wills, The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Evolution

Paleontology (other subjects)

Richard Fortey, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Richard Fortey, Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution
Stephen Jay Gould, The Book of Life
Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution & History of Life: A Science Masters Series Book (2003)
Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Robert A. Martin, Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time
J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life
Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell, At the Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell, At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life
Case studies (other subjects)
Tijs Goldschmidt (Sherry Marx-Macdonald, Translator), Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria
Timothy H. Goldsmith, The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links Between Evolution and Behavior
Rosemary Grant, Peter Grant, Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos
Ian Tattersall, Donald C. Johanson, The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Adaptation (other subjects)
Lynn Helena Caporale, Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution
Paul Colinvaux, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Steven A. Frank, Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
Chris Lavers, Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Understanding Patterns of Life on Earth
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
Jeffry B. Mitton, Selection in Natural Populations
R. Nesse and G. Williams, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Eric P. Widmaier, Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do)
George C. Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection
George C. Williams, The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature
Christopher Wills, The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Evolution
Geerat J. Vermeij, Evolution and Escalation
Philosophy (other subjects)
Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
Ernst Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist
Michael Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy
Michael Ruse, Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction
Michael Ruse, Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ruse, E.O. Wilson, The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates
Elliot Sober, Philosophy of Biology
Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Development (other subjects)
Wallace Arthur, Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
Wallace Arthur, The Origin of Animal Body Plans: A Study in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
John Tyler Bonner, Life Cycles
Sean B. Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Sean B. Carroll et al., From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
Unclassified topics (other subjects)
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Niles Eldredge and Marjorie Grene, Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems
Steven A. Frank, Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
Brian Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed His Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
Roger Lewin, Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species
John Maynard Smith, Evolution and the Theory of Games
R. Nesse and G. Williams, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Robert T. Pennock (editor), Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives
David Raup, Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
Mark Ridley, The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
Tom Wakeford, Liaisons of Life: From Hornworts to Hippos, How the Unassuming Microbe has Driven Evolution
E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature

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