Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

9 best books like Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature (Brian Switek): The Selfish Gene, 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, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

The Selfish Gene

Author	Richard Dawkins
ISBN	0199291152

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....

At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

Author	Carl Zimmer
ISBN	0684856239

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

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0674006135

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

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0060845503

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

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...

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction

Author	Eugenie C. Scott
ISBN	0520246500

The evolution versus creationism conflict is here to stay. Even after their devastating defeat in the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision, advocates of intelligent design and other forms of creationism continue to revise their strategies for undermining the teaching of evolution-and thus of science...

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

Author	Sean B. Carroll
ISBN	0393327795

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...

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Author	Richard Fortey
ISBN	0375706216

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

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...