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10 best books like Dinosaur in a Haystack (Stephen Jay Gould): The Natural History of Selborne, The Case of the Midwife Toad, The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, Life on Earth, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Lucy: the beginnings of humankind, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, Fragile Species, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species

The Natural History of Selborne
AuthorGilbert White
ISBN0140431128
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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The Case of the Midwife Toad
AuthorArthur Koestler
ISBN0394718232
s/t: A Scientific Mystery Revisited
During his 30-plus years of writing, Arthur Koestler has covered a wide range of modern problems from brainwashing in totalitarian societies to the conflict between science & religion &, most recently (in The Act of Creation & The Ghost in the...
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
AuthorRobert T. Bakker
ISBN0806522607
This groundbreaking book reveals that, far from being sluggish reptiles, dinosaurs were actually agile, fast, warm-blooded, and intelligent. The author explodes the old orthodoxies and gives us a convincing picture of how dinosaurs hunted, fed, mated, fought and died.Containing over 200 detailed...
Life on Earth
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0316057452
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass...
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
AuthorRichard 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...
Lucy: the beginnings of humankind
AuthorDonald C. Johanson
ISBN0671724991
“A glorious success…The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip” (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the discovery of “Lucy”—the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.

When Donald Johanson...
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684835096
Passage From Book:

Personal ethics involves the drawing of lines: I will go as far as this boundary, here, but I will not go beyond. I will defend myself against physical menace but only pacifically. I will fight if attacked but I won't kill. I will kill if my family is threatened but I won't aggress....
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN0618178929
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
Fragile Species
AuthorLewis Thomas
ISBN0684843021
I love his quirky essays, but this book got demoted to 2 stars because of the section on AIDS. I can't forgive the blatant dismissal of gays who were suffering and dying in their thousands while he writes about the concern that the "general population" was likely to be infected at some point, too. The clear...
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
AuthorSean B. Carroll
An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.

 

Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’...
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
AuthorSamantha Weinberg
ISBN0060932856
Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve...
Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs
AuthorJohn R. Horner
ISBN0894802208
This was a really great place to start if you want to know more about dinosaurs and paleontology and the only knowledge you have is watching the Jurassic Park movies. Horner talks about digging one formation over the course of several years and the discoveries made there that drastically changed how...
In The Blink Of An Eye: How Vision Sparked The Big Bang Of Evolution
AuthorAndrew Parker
ISBN0465054382
About 550 million years ago, there was literally an explosion of life forms, as all the major animal groups suddenly and dramatically appeared. Although several books have been written about this surprising event, known as the Cambrian explosion, none has explained why it occurred. Indeed, none...
Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest
AuthorKim Sterelny
ISBN1840467800
An international bestseller when originally published, this brand-new and completely revised edition updates the story of one of science's most vigorous arguments. Science has seen its fair share of punch-ups over the years, but one debate, in the field of biology, has become notorious for its intensity....
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin
AuthorChristopher McGowan
ISBN0738206733
Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world--a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary remains of animals never before seen. In this transporting, seamlessly...
The Dinosaur Hunters
AuthorDeborah Cadbury
ISBN1857029593
It may seem surprising but dinosaurs are actually a British "invention" of the early 19th century. The name dinosaur was coined in 1842 by an English anatomist Richard Owen, a highly ambitious, machiavellian schemer and villain of Deborah Cadbury's The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific...
The Faber Book of Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils To...
AuthorJohn Carey
ISBN0571163521
The editor of the internationally acclaimed Eyewitness to History now charts the development of modern science. In this first anthology of its kind, Carey chooses accounts by scientists themselves--astronomers and physicists, biologists, chemists, psychologists--that are both arrestingly...
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
AuthorMichael Ruse
In this meaty tome (979 pages long!), the editors (Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis) present numerous articles written by renowned scientists on various aspects of modern evolutionary theory. Jeffrey Bada and Antonio Lazcano discuss developments in understanding the origin of life; Michael Benton...
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