Book List

For some science/zoology/natural history reading:

Zoological Reading

• A Primate’s Memoir — by Robert M. Sapolsky
• Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind — by David Quammen
• The Song of the Dodo — by David Quammen
• Gorillas in the Mist — by Dian Fossey
• In the Shadow of Man — by Jane Goodall
• Inside the Animal Mind: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence — by George Page
• When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals — by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy
• Nim: a Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language — by Herbert S. Terrace
• The Evolution of Culture in Animals — by John T. Bonner
• Animal Liberation — by Peter Singer
• The Diversity of Life — by Edward O. Wilson
• Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild — by Susan McCarthy
• Naturalis Historia (A Natural History) — by Pliny the Elder

Evolution/Genetics

• The Origin of Species — by Charles Darwin
• The Descent of Man — by Charles Darwin
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals — by Charles Darwin
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters — by Matt Ridley
• The Beak of the Finch — by Jonathan Weiner
• The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal — by Jared Diamond
• The Selfish Gene — by Richard Dawkins
• Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands — by Edward J. Larson

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