Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought

6 best books like Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (George C. Williams): The Baron in the Trees, I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, Re:cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

The Baron in the Trees

Author

Italo Calvino

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms

Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his...

I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson

Author	Osa Johnson
ISBN	1568361289

A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a 'round-the-world cruise with Jack London....

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	1476776628

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...

Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Author	Sara Wheeler
ISBN	1400060699

Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler...

Re:cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels

Author	Michael Hutchinson
ISBN	1472925599

Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less instant.

Re:cyclists is the tale of what happened next, of how we have spent two centuries wheeling our way about town and country on bikes--or...

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

Author

Christopher Hitchens

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...