Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated

8 best books like Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated (Steve Jones): Why Evolution Is True, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, The Mismeasure of Man, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Why Evolution Is True

Author	Jerry A. Coyne
ISBN	0670020532

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact.

In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the "evidence," the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection....

At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

Author	Carl Zimmer
ISBN	0684856239

Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...

The Mismeasure of Man

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0393314251

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0060845503

Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

Author

Richard Fortey

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

Author	Sean B. Carroll
ISBN	0393327795

Dnf'd. Not because it is a bad book, boring or not well-written, but because it turns out that my appetite for evolutionary biology does not extend as far as embryology. I just cannot summon up the interest to concentrate and have to keep rereading and looking (again and again) at the illustrations. Maybe...

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Author	Richard Fortey
ISBN	0375706216

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Author	Donald R. Prothero
ISBN	0231139624

Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...