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At the Water's Edge : Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life

9 reviews
Carl Zimmer

Free Press, 1998

Awesome!!!!
This book does a remarkable job of covering two major transitions in evolution. First the transition from fish to the first terrestrial tetrapods and secondly from terrestrial mammals to whales. A kind of out of the water and back in scenario. The book covers the transitional specimens that have been found to date very well and goes over most of the difficulties of changing from one extreme ...

Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins

19 reviews
Carl Zimmer

HarperCollins Publishers, 2005

A good book for understanding the ancestry of human beings
An excellent and brilliant introductory book for the big puzzle of human origins! The writer transforms the anthropological and evolutionary literatures into a popular reading. You may witness milestones of the dispersal of human beings and find it is easier than imagined to discuss the history of human evolution with your friends and kids. It is worthy to bring it home from a museum shop and ...

Cerebrum 2008: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science

1 review

Dana Press, 2008

Thoughts for the day
The way cognitive studies are going, this book's subtitle: "Emerging Ideas in Brain Science" suggest it should be published on a continuous roll of paper. New ideas in neurosciences seem to be occurring on a monthly, if not a weekly basis. This noteworthy collection is indicative of the challenge readers face in the effort to maintain the pace set by research in this field. These sixteen ...

The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition

1 review
Charles Darwin

Plume, 2007

Charles Darwin and his perceptive insight into the evoluition of life
Through Darwin's, "The Descent of Man" and his earlier "The Origin of Species" the reader is introduced to the power of the observations and the conclusions of this remarkable man. In what might have been the greatest "a ha" moments in the history of man, Charles Darwin gave us biological science and quite, literally, changed the way we understand the evolution of life on earth. He overcame the ...

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

15 reviews
Carl Zimmer

Free Press, 1999

A Whale of A Tale!
This is one of my favourite books. Not just about whales, mind you, but about evolution of life in the oceans, then up onto land and, in some cases, back to sea again. The author takes the reader through a complete yet understandable history of the evolution of whales. For my part, I knew that whales had once been terrestrial, but I didn't know even a tenth of the entire story. I learned that ...

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

8 reviews
Carl Zimmer

Pantheon, 2008

Biology as Seen from E. coli, a mere Bacterium, Courtesy of Carl Zimmer
With the trained eyes of a scientist and the soul of poet, eminent science writer Carl Zimmer takes us on an all too brief, yet fascinating, trek into contemporary biology, as seen from the perspective of the bacterium Escherichia coli, in his latest book, "Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life". More than a mere recounting of decades of elegant scientific research from the likes of ...

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World

17 reviews
Carl Zimmer

Free Press, 2005

What Willis was talking about
For about a thousand years, the smartest people of every European generation tried to understand the world around them by reading texts based on scriptures and the works of ancient philosophers. At the end of the thousand years, the living conditions of the average person were the same as they were at the beginning of the thousand years. Life expectancy was around 40, and most people lived in ...

"T. rex" and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library)

36 reviews
Walter Alvarez

Princeton University Press, 2008

Fascinating
Great account of the evolution of the meteor impact theory of mass extinction. He provides a detailed account of the scientific processes involved in the discovery of the Chixulub crater and its relation to the end of the Cretaceous period. As a scientist in another field, I found it to be very informative for the lay reader (non-paleontologist/geologist, etc.).

Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

56 reviews
Carl Zimmer

Free Press, 2001

Awesome book changes your outlook
Another excellently-written work from Carl Zimmer. This book will give you a bad case of the creepy-crawlies in parts. It will also completely change your outlook on the nature of life, because you will learn that parasites are not really the gross, "devolved" hangers-on that most think of them as, but rather a vibrant, important part of the web of life... ... that is sometimes really ...

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

64 reviews
Carl Zimmer

Harper Perennial, 2006

the FACT of evolution
Everyone who disagrees with Evolution almost invariably says "it's just a theory". Well, the word "theory" in the scientific community is different than how it is (usually falsely) used in the "secular" world. Since Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. MOUNDS of evidence supporting Darwins Theory have been amassed. This book does a fantastic job describing every facet of ...

Virus and the Whale: Exploring Evolution in Creatures Small and Large

National Science Teachers Association, 2006

With this lively book of activities as their guide, students can follow seven scientists into their labs and out to the field to discover how evolution works. Meanwhile, you'll benefit from the practical help the book provides with the twin challenges of evolution: what to teach and how to teach it. For students, Virus and the Whale brings to light some of today's most exciting and up-to-date research through the stories of scientists who ...

Die Quelle des Lebens. Von Darwin, Dinos und Delphinen.
Carl Zimmer

Deuticke, 1998

Soul Made Flesh
Carl Zimmer

Arrow Books Ltd, 2005

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Thomson Gale, 2005

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