The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

9 best books like The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance (Ernst W. Mayr): The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, The Mismeasure of Man, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Dinosaur in a Haystack, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, Punctuated Equilibrium

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Author

Jonathan Weiner

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...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Author	Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN	0679444327

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. 

From...

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0393308189

More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.

Ever Since Darwin,...

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 Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Author	Thomas S. Kuhn
ISBN	0226458083

Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit...

Dinosaur in a Haystack

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0517888246

Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey...

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0393311031

Interesting. Gould wrote these essays around the time that the Alvarez meteoric impact theory was being published. This is something that we now know to be beyond doubt. But at the time, when it was just being introduced, the theory, and especially its association with the Cretaceous extinction, was...

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

Author	Neil Shubin
ISBN	0307378438

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...

Punctuated Equilibrium

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0674024443

In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time--perhaps the...