Please select a book from the following list for your book report. If you would prefer to use a book which is not on this list, you must have written permission from me. The general subject of this list is evolution, and if you wish to substitute a different book, it must also fit into this category. The report is to be five to seven pages in length, double spaced and typed. No book report will be accepted hand written.
Your book report is due on the final Monday of the quarter. There will be a 10% penalty for every day late.
| Allen & Briggs: Evolution and the Fossil Record | Asimov: In The Beginning | |
| Bakker: Dinosaur Heresies | Calvin: Ascent of Man | |
| Darwin: The Descent of Man* | Darwin: The Origin of Species* | |
| Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle* | Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker | |
| Dawkins: River Out of Eden | deDuve: Vital Dust | |
| Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea | Desmond: Hot Blooded Dinosaurs | |
| Edey & Johanson: Blueprints | Eldredge: The Miner's Canary | |
| Eldredge: The Monkey Business | Eldredge & Tattersall: Myths of Human Evolution | |
| Futuyma: Science on Trial | Goldschmidt: The Material Basis of Evolution | |
| Goodall: Through a Window | Gould: Full House | |
| Gould: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle | Gould: Wonderful Life | |
| Gribbon & Cherfas: The Monkey Puzzle | Horner: Digging Dinosaurs | |
| Horner & Lessem: The Complete T. rex | Jacobs: The Quest for the African Dinosaur | |
| Johanson & Edey: Lucy | Johanson & Johanson: Ancestors | |
| Johanson & Shreeve: Lucy's Child | Kitcher: Abusing Science | |
| Leakey: The Origin of Humankind | Leakey & Lewin: Origins Revisited | |
| Lessem: Dinosaurs Rediscovered | Lewin: Bones of Contention | |
| Margulis: Early Life | Margulis: Microcosmos | |
| Mayr: One Long Argument | Psilhoyos: Hunting Dinosaurs | |
| Raup: Extinction | Simpson: Discoverers of the Lost World | |
| Spalding: Dinosaur Hunters | Spencer: Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery | |
| Stringer & Gamble: In Search of the Neanderthals | Tattersall: The Fossil Trail | |
| Trinkaus & Shipman: The Neanderthals | Wilson: The Diversity of Life |