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Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction

10 best books like Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (Eugenie C. Scott): Why Evolution Is True, The Selfish Gene, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, 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, Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Why Evolution Is True
AuthorJerry A. Coyne
ISBN0670020532
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....
The Selfish Gene
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN0199291152
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the Author

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene....
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time
AuthorMichael J. Benton
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed,...
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
AuthorCarl Zimmer
ISBN0684856239
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 Structure of Evolutionary Theory
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN0674006135
The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision.

With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0060845503
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
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...
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
AuthorSean B. Carroll
ISBN0393327795
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...
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
AuthorBrian Switek
ISBN1934137294
“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine

““In delightful prose, [Switek] . . . superbly shows that ‘[i]f we can let go of our conceit,’ we will see the preciousness of life in all its...
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
AuthorDonald R. Prothero
ISBN0231139624
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...
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