The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

8 best books like The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (Lewis Thomas): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, The Mismeasure of Man, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen, The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Author	Aldo Leopold
ISBN	0195007778

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	0684827123

David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...

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 Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Author	Carl Sagan
ISBN	1594201072

On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysicist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God.

Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable...

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...

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

Author

Richard 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...

The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

Author	Brian Cox
ISBN	1846144329

In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible;and fascinating to everyone.

The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number...

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

Author

Alice Roberts

The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos contain echoes of our evolutionary past.

Bringing together the...