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Avenues for Further Learning

Darwin Biographies

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Desmond, Adrian and James Moore. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991.

Greensburger, Robert. Darwin and the Theory of Evolution. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2005.

Quammen, David. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution. New York: Atlas Books/Norton, 2006.

General Resources

Carroll, Sean. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.

Collins, Francis S. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. New York: Free Press, 2006.

Coyne, Jerry A. Why Evolution Is True. New York: Viking, 2009.

Darwin, Charles, and Edward O. Wilson. From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin’s Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals). New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.

Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.

Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.

Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

Fairbanks, Daniel J. Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA. Amherst, N.Y.: PrometheusBooks, 2007.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Rock of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap/Harvard University Press,2002.

Kauffman, Stuart A. Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion. New York: Basic Books,2008.

Miller, Kenneth R. Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution. New York: Cliff Street Books, 1999.

Miller, Kenneth R. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul. New York: Viking, 2008.

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. Science, Evolution, and Creationism. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2008.

Prothero, Donald R. Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Roughgarden, Joan. Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.

Scientific American (ed.). Evolution: A Scientific American Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Shubin, Neil. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.

Wilson, Edward O. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, 25th Anniversary Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2000.

Wright, Robert. The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.

 

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