Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
9 best books like Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History (Stephen Jay Gould): Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, Annals of the Former World, On Human Nature, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, The Land of Little Rain, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
| Author | V.S. Ramachandran |
| ISBN | 0688172172 |
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech...
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
| Author | Temple Grandin |
| ISBN | 0679772898 |
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible...
| Author | John McPhee |
| ISBN | 0374518734 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years
Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0674016386 |
No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore E.O. Wilson's book. On Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With...
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...
| Author | Nick Lane |
| ISBN | 0199205647 |
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed, these tiny structures inside our cells are important beyond imagining. Without mitochondria, we would have no cell suicide, no sculpting of embryonic shape, no sexes, no menopause, no aging.
In...
| Author | Mary Hunter Austin |
| ISBN | 0140249192 |
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0452265622 |
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American...
| 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...
