Punctuated Equilibrium
8 best books like Punctuated Equilibrium (Stephen Jay Gould): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Gods and Generals, The Space Between the Stars, Art Forms in Nature, The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD), The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin...
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 1841580651 |
In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara explores the lives of Generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson and Chamberlain as the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg approaches.
Shaara captures the disillusionment of both Lee and Hancock early in their...
The Space Between the Stars
In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories.
All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn’t forced...
| Author | Ernst Haeckel |
| ISBN | 3791319906 |
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's...
| Author | Donald E. Kroodsma |
| ISBN | 0618405682 |
Listen to Birds Sing as you've never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of thrushes and thrashers, wrens and robins, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and may more birds....
| Author | Ernst W. Mayr |
| ISBN | 0674364465 |
No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as The Growth of Biological Thought. Ten years in preparation, this is a work of epic...
| Author | Kate L. Turabian |
| ISBN | 0226823377 |
Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the...
