Biology books Biology books Adam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men is a book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declining sperm count in men and the continual atrophy of the Y chromosome, within 5,000 generations (approximately 125,000 years) the male of the human species will become extinct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam's Curse"
American Beetles is the single most comprehensive description of the beetles of North America north of the tropical area of Mexico. It was started by Ross H. Arnett, Jr. as an update of his classic The Beetles of the United States; along with Michael C. Thomas, he enlisted more than 60 specialists to write treatments of each family. The work outlived Arnett, and was published by CRC Press in 2001 (vol. 1) and 2002 (vol. 2). ...more on Wikipedia about "American Beetles"
Brehms Tierleben (English title: Brehm's Life of Animals) ...more on Wikipedia about "Brehms Tierleben"
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution, and specifically is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection producing complex organisms. The book is illustrated by Dawkins' wife, Lalla Ward. ...more on Wikipedia about "Climbing Mount Improbable"
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life ( 1995) is a controversial book by Daniel Dennett that argues that Darwinian processes are the central organising force not only in biology (which is not controversial), but also in most other aspects of the Universe, including the human mind (see Neural Darwinism). ...more on Wikipedia about "Darwin's Dangerous Idea"
Darwinian Happiness: Evolution As a Guide for Living and Understanding Human Behavior, ISBN 0878501592, is a 2002 book by the Norwegian biologist Bjørn Grinde from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. He argues that human emotions find their cause in evolution and offers ways by which we can use this for our advantage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darwinian Happiness"
Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters (ISBN 0007635737) is a 1999 popular science book by Matt Ridley, published by Fourth Estate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genome (book)"
Journey to the Ants: a Story of Scientific Exploration is a book first published in 1994, written by Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler. The book was written as a popularized account for the layman of the science earlier presented in their winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991: The Ants. ...more on Wikipedia about "Journey to the Ants"
King Solomon's Ring is a zoological book for the general audience, written by the Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. The first English-language edition appeared in 1952. ...more on Wikipedia about "King Solomon's Ring (nonfiction)"
Description: Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Gray's Anatomy, is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. The book was first published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in Great Britain in 1858, and the following year in the United States. The book's British author died after the publication of the 1860 second edition, at the age of 34, but his much-praised book was continued by others and on November 24, 2004, the 39th British edition was released. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of publications in biology"
Micrographia is a historical book by Robert Hooke, detailing the then twenty-eight year-old Hooke's observations through various lenses. Published September, 1664, it was an immediate best-seller. Hooke most famously describes a fly's eye and a plant cell (where he coined that term because plant cells, which are walled, reminded him of monks' chambers). Known for its spectacular copperplate engravings of the miniature world, particularly its fold-out plates of insects, the text itself reinforces the tremendous power of the new microscope. The plates of insects fold out to be larger than the large folio itself, the engraving of the louse in particular folding out to four times the size of the book. Although the book is most known for foregrounding the power of the microscope, Micrographia also describes distant planetary bodies, the wave theory of light, and various other philosophical and scientific interests of its author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Micrographia"
Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna ( Swedish for "National Key to Sweden's Flora and Fauna") is a set of books, the first volume of which, Fjärilar: Dagfjärilar ( Butterflies, 140 species), appeared on April 25, 2005. The publishing plan comprises 100,000 illustrations spread over more than 100 volumes, to appear over a period of 20 years, listing and providing popular scientific descriptions of all species of plants ( flora) and animals ( fauna) in Sweden. So large a work has never been published in the history of Swedish literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna"
Of Moths and Men is a controversial book by the journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school, led by E.B. Ford and specifically about Bernard Kettlewell's experiments on the peppered moth, who she suggests committed scientific fraud. These allegations, however appear to be groundless. The book has been acclaimed by creationists but widely rejected by the scientific community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Of Moths and Men"
On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a book by PalmPilot-inventor Jeff Hawkins with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory-prediction framework theory of the brain and describes some of its consequences. (Times Books: 2004, ISBN 0805074562) ...more on Wikipedia about "On Intelligence"
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Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology is a book edited by Gerd Müller and Stuart Newman (ISBN 0-262-13419-5). It explores the multiple factors that may have been responsible for the origination of biological form in multicellular life. These biological forms include limbs, segmented strutures, and different body symmetries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Origination of Organismal Form"
River Out of Eden is a 1995 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. It is part of the Science Masters series and is Dawkins's shortest book. The book is about evolution and includes summaries of the topics covered in his earlier books, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and The Blind Watchmaker. It also includes illustrations by Lalla Ward, Dawkins's wife. ...more on Wikipedia about "River Out Of Eden"
The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, written in 1991, by E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler. It was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Ants"
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is an autobiographical account of the discovery of structure of DNA. It was written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. The Norton Critical Edition includes a fascinating set of related scientific and literary pieces by such figures as Peter Medawar, Max Perutz, and Robert K. Merton. The film The Race for the Double Helix offers an entertaining and insightful dramatization of the story. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Double Helix"
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene is a 1982 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins and is sometimes a reference to the idea expounded in that book. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Extended Phenotype"
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (ISBN 0393039722) is a controversial book critiquing what he saw as " scientific racism," starting with ideas such as craniometry and the eugenics movement and concluding with more recent developments in the study of race and intelligence. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Mismeasure of Man"
First published on November 24, 1859, The Origin of Species (full title On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) by British naturalist Charles Darwin is one of the pivotal works in scientific history, and arguably the pre-eminent work in biology. In it, Darwin makes "one long argument" for his theory that "groups" of organisms, (which we now call populations) rather than individual organisms, gradually evolve through the process of natural selection—a mechanism effectively introduced to the public at large by the book. The work presents detailed scientific evidence he had accumulated both on the Voyage of the Beagle in the 1830s and since his return, painstakingly laying out his theory and refuting the doctrine of " Created kinds" underlying the theories of Creation biology which were then widely accepted. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Origin of Species"
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The Origins Of Virtue is a 1997 popular-science book by Matt Ridley. In the book Ridley explores the issues surrounding the development of human morality. The book, written from a sociobiological viewpoint, explores how genetics can be used to explain certain traits of human behaviour, in particular morality and altruism. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Origins Of Virtue"
The Science of Life is nine books in three volumes popular science written by Julian Huxley H.G. Wells and his son G.P. Wells and published by The Waverley Publishing Company Ltd in 1930, describing all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Science of Life"
The Selfish Gene is a very popular and somewhat controversial book by Richard Dawkins. The phrase "selfish gene" in the title of the book was coined by Dawkins as a provocative way of expressing the gene-centric view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes, and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection on genes. More precisely, an organism is expected to evolve to maximise its inclusive fitness—the number of copies of its genes passed on globally (rather than by a particular individual). As a result, populations will tend towards an evolutionarily stable strategy. The book also coins the term ' meme', for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such "selfish" replication may also model human culture, albeit in a different sense. Memetics has become the subject of many studies since the publication of the book. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Selfish Gene"
The Seven Daughters of Eve is a book by Bryan Sykes that presents the theory of mitochondrial genetics in a clear and non-specialistic manner. Sykes explains the principles of genetics and human evolution, the particularities of mitochondrial genetics, and his analysis of fossilized DNA to genetically link modern humans to prehistoric ancestors. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Seven Daughters of Eve"
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