Biology 470: Bonus Book ReviewSpring 2011
By turning in a review (critique) highlighting the important points of interest to you of one of the following books, up to 15 points will be added to the course point total. Another title may be acceptable with Gobalet’s approval. It is your responsibility to locate a copy of the book. The number of points awarded will depend on the quality of the submission and the length and difficulty of the reading. Boldface titles are my favorites. The review is due on May 2, 2011. Submit electronically () by 8:00 am and turn in a printed copy. The 2.5 page review should be 1.0 spaced using # 12 font. The top of the first page should follow this format:
Evolution Bonus Review
Pigliucci, M. 2002. Denying Evolution, Creationism, Science and Nature of Science.
Chris Horner
May 2, 2011
Alvarez, W. 1997. T. rex and the Crater of Doom
Attenborough, David 2008. Life in Cold Blood.
Barlow, C. 2001. Ghosts of Evolution.
Beccaloni, Jan. 2009. Arachnids
Bell, M.A. et al. 2010. Evolution since Darwin: the First 150 years
Benton, Michael J. 2008. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time.
Bowler, Peter J. 1989. Evolution, The History of an Idea.
Bowler, Peter J. and I. R. Morus. 2005. Making Modern Science.
Bowler, P. J. 2009. Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to I.D.
Bowler, P. J. 2009. Science for All, the Popularization of Science in Early 20th Century.
Burnett, D. Graham. 2007. Trying Leviathan; The Nineteenth Century New York Court, Case that put the
Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature.
Burton, Frances D. 2009. Fire, the Spark that Ignited Human Evolution.
Carroll, S.B. 2005. Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The New Science of Evo Devo.
Carroll, S.B. 2006. The Making of the Fittest: DNA & Ultimate Forensic Record.
Carroll, S.B. 2009. Into the Jungle, great adventures in search for evolution
Carroll, S.B. 2009. Remarkable Creatures, Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species.
Chiappe, L.M. 2007. Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.
Collier, Paul. 2010. The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can- Manage Nature for Global
Prosperity/ How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature.
Coyne, Jerry A. and H. Allen Orr. 2004. Speciation.
Coyle, Jerry A. 2009. Why Evolution is True.
Darwin, C.R. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Dawkins, R. 1976. The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins, R. 1996. The Blind Watchmaker.
Dawkins, R. 2004. The Ancestor’s Tale, a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
Dawkins, R. 2006. The God Delusion.
Dawkins, Richard. 2009. The Greatest Show on Earth.
Dennett, D. 2005. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
Diamond, J. 2005. Collapse. How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed
Diamond, J. 1997. Why is Sex Fun?
Diamond, J. 1993. The Third Chimpanzee
Drisdelle, R. 2010. Parasites, tales of humanities most unwelcome guests
Dusenbery, D. B. 2009. Living at Mico Scale: the Unexpected Physics of Being Small.
Eldridge, N. 2000. The Triumph of Evolution, the Failure of Creationism.
Eldridge, N. 2004. Why We Do It.
Ehrlich, Paul K. and Anne H. Ehrlich. 2004. One with Nineveh.
Erwin, D.H. 2006. Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago.
Erwin, D. & J. Valentine. 2011. The Cambrian Explosion and the Construction of Animal Biodiversity.
Fara, Patricia 2009. Science, a Four Thousand Year History
Flannery, Tim. 1994 The Future Eaters
Flannery, T. 2001. The Eternal Frontier.
Flannery, T. 2005. The Weather Makers. History & Future Impact of Climate Change.
Fagan, Brian. 2008. The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.
Forrest, B. & P. Gross. 2004. Creationism’s Trojan Horse. Wedge of Intelligent Design.
Fortey, R. 1997. Life, the First Four Billion Years.
Gazzaniga, Michael S. 2008. Human: the Science Behind what Makes us Unique.
Gilbert, S.F. & D. Epel. 2009. Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating
Epigenetics, Medicine and Evolution.
Gluckman, P. et al. 2009. Principles of Evolutionary Medicine.
Gould, S.J. 1989. Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
Gould, Stephen J. 2002. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.
Harris, Sam. 2004. The End of Faith.
Harris, S. 2006. Letter to a Christian Nation.
Hitchens, C. 2007. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Holldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 2008. The Superorganism
Jones, S. 2002. Darwin’s Ghost, The Origin of SpeciesUpdated
Judson, O., 2002. Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to all Creation.
Knoll, A.H. 2003. Life on a Young Planet.
Laubichler, M.D. and J. Maienschein, Eds. 2007. From Embryo to Evo-Devo, a History of Develop. Evol.
Leakey, R. and R. Lewin 1995. The Sixth Extinction
Levine, G. 2006. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and Re-enchantment of World.
Losos, J.B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles.
Losos, J.B. ed. 2011. In the Light of Evolution.
Majerus, M.E.N. 2003. Sex Wars, Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex Ratios.
Margulis, Lynn. 1993. Symbiosis in Cell Evolution. 2nd ed.
Margulis, Lynn. 1998. Symbiotic Planet, a New View of Evolution.
Martin, Paul. S. 2005. Twilight of the Mammoths.
Mayr. E. 1971. Populations, Species, and Evolution.
Mayr, E. 2004. What makes Biology Unique?
Martin, R. 2004. Missing Links, Evolutionary Concepts & Transitions through Time.
McCarthy, Dennis. 2009. Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life on Earth.
Milam E. L. 2010. Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology.
Miller.K.2000. Finding Darwin’s God, a Scientists Search for Common Ground between God and Evol.
Miller, K. R. 2008. Only a Theory, Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul.
Moffett, Mark W. 2010. Adventures among Ants; a global safari with a cast of trillions.
Moore, J.A. 1999. Science as a Way of Knowing, The Foundations of Modern Biology.
Moore, John A. 2002. From Genesis to Genetics the Case of Evolution and Creationism.
Moorehead, A. 1969. Darwin and the Beagle.
Morris, S.C. 1998. The Crucible of Creation: the Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals.
Palmer, Douglas. 2009. Evolution, the Story of Life.
Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The Evolution Explosion, How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change.
Pigliucci, M. 2002. Denying Evolution, Creationism, Science and Nature of Science.
Pigliucci, Massimo and Jonathan Kaplan. 2006. Making Sense of Evolution.
Potts, M. & T. Hayden 2008. Sex and War, How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and
Offers a Path to a Safer World.
Prindle, D. F. 2009. Steven .J. Gould and the Politics of Evolution.
Roberts, Paul. 2004. The End of Oil
Roughgarden, J. 2004. Evolution’s Rainbow.
Ruse, Michael and Joseph Travis. 2009. Evolution, the First Four Billion years.
Sapp. Jan. 2009. The New Foundation of Evolution: on the Tree of Life.
Sachs, Jessica Snyder. 2007. Good Germs, Bad Germs.
Schon, Isa et al. 2009. Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis.
Schopf, J. W. 1999. Cradle of Life, the Discovery of the Earth’s Earliest Fossils.
Shubin, Neil. 2008. Your Inner Fish
Shuster, S.M. and M.J. Wade. 2003. Mating Systems and Strategies.
Simmons, L.W. 2001. Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in Insects.
Simpson, G.G. 1953. The Major Features of Evolution.
Soalem, Sharon. 2007. Survival of the Sickest.
Steadman, David W. 2006. Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds
Stenger, Victor J. 2007. God, The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist
Stolzenburg. W. 2008. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of
Vanishing Predators.
Valentine, J.W. 2004. On the Origin of Phyla.
Vermeij, G.J. 2004. Nature, an Economic History.
Walter, C. 2006. Thumbs, Toes, and Tears and other Traits that make us Human.
Weiner, Jonathan. 1994. The Beak of the Finch.
Wilson, D.S. 2007. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think about
Our Lives.
Wilson, D.S. 2002. Darwin’s Cathedral, Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society.
Wilson, Edward O. 1975. Sociobiology: the New Synthesis.
Wrangham, Richard. 2009. Catching Fire, how Cooking made us Human.
Yoon, Carol K. 2009. Naming Nature: the clash Between Instinct and Science.
Zimmer, Carl. 2000. Parasite Rex.
Zimmer, Carl. 1998. At the Water’s Edge, Fish with Fingers Whales with Legs.
Zimmer, Carl. 2001. Evolution, the Triumph on an Idea.
Zimmer, C. 2008. Microcosm,E. coli and the New Science of Life
Zimmer, C. 2009. The Tangled Bank, an Introduction to Evolution