Biology 470: Bonus Readings March 2013
By turning in a book review (critique), up to 20 bonus points will be added into the final point total.
Other books may be acceptable with instructor approval. The number of points awarded will depend on the quality of the submission and the length and difficulty of the book. The review is due April
29, 2013 . The three-page summary should be single spaced using #12 font and 1” margins. Submit electronically to kgobalet@csub.edu
and provide a printed copy. The top of the first page of the summary must follow this format:
Evolution Bonus Book Review:
Bowler, Peter J. 1989. Evolution, The History of an Idea.
Sergio Romo
April 29, 2013
Alvarez, W. 1997. T. rex and the Crater of Doom
Anderson, JS and H Sues (eds). 2007. Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution.
Balmford, Andrew. 2012. Wild Hope; on the Front Lines of Conservation Success.
Barlow, George W. 2000. The Cichlid Fishes.
Barlow, Connnie. 2001. Ghosts of Evolution.
Bavington, D. & G. Wynn 2010. Managed Annihilation: an Unnatural History of the Cod Collapse.
Beccaloni, Jan. 2009. Arachnids
Benton, M. J. 2008. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time
Brown, Lester. 2010. Plan B 4.0
Bonner, John T. 2006. Why Size Matters.
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 & Gorilla Sermons: Evolution & Christianity from Darwin to I.D.
Bowler, P. J. 2009. Science for All, the Popularization of Science in Early 20th Century.
Bryson, Bill. 2003. A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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.
Carroll. Sean B. 2005. Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The New Science of Evo Devo.
Carroll. S.B. 2006. The Making of the Fittest, DNA & the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution.
Carroll, S.B. 2009. Remarkable Creatures, Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species.
Carroll S.B. 2009. Into the Jungle, great adventures in the search for evolution.
Chiappe, Luis M. 2007. Glorified Dinosaurs, the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.
Clack, J. 2002. Gaining Ground, the Origin and early Evolution of Tetrapods.
Crosby, A.W. 1972. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.
Crosby, A.W. 1986 Ecological Imperialism: the Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900.
Dawkins, Richard.1976. The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins, Richard. 2004. The Ancestor’s Tale.
Dawkins, Richard. 2006. The God Delusion.
Dawkins, Richard. 2008. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Dawkins, Richard. 2009. The Greatest Show on Earth; The Evidence for Evolution
Diamond, J.M. 1987. Guns, Germs and Steel: The fates of Human Societies
Diamond, J. 2005. Collapse.
Diamond, J. 2012. The World Until Yesterday.
Dusenbery, D. B. 2009. Living at Mico Scale: the Unexpected Physics of Being Small.
Eisner, T. 2003. For Love of Insects.
Eilperin, Juliet. 2011. Demon Fish, Travels through the hidden world of sharks.
Eldridge, Niles. 2000. The Triumph of Evolution, the Failure of Creationism.
Ellis, Richard. 2008. Tuna, a Love Story
Erwin, D. H. 2006. Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
Erwin D.H. and J. Valentine. 2013. The Cambrian Explosion: the Construction of Animal
Biodiversity.
Fagan, Brian. 2006. Fish on Friday, Feasting, Fasting and the discovery of the New World
Fagan, B. 2008. The Great Warming, climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.
Flannery, T. 2001. The Eternal Frontier. Ecological History of North America and its Peoples.

Fara, Patricia 2009. Science, a Four Thousand Year History
Flannery, Tim. 1994 The Future Eaters
Flannery, T. 2006. The Weathermakers
Fleming, T. H. 2004? A Bat Man in the tropics: Chasing el Duende.
Franklin, H. B. 2007. The Most Important Fish in the Sea
Forbes, Peter 2009. Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage
Futuyma, Douglas J. 1995. Science on Trial.
Gilbert, S.F. & D. Epel. 2009. Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating
Epigenetics, Medicine and Evolution.
Gluckman, P. et al. 2009. Principles of Evolutionary Medicine.
Gordon, J. E. 1981. Structures or Why Things Don’t Fall Down.
Gore. Al. 2013. The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change.
Gould S.J., 1989. Wonderful Life, The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
Greenberg, Paul. 2010. Four Fish: the Future of the Last Wild Food.
Hall, B.K. 1994. Homology: the Hierarchical basis of Comparative Biology
Hall, B.K. (ed). 2007. Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation
Halverson, Anders 2010. An in Entirely Synthetic fish, How Rainbow trout Beguiled America and
Overran the World.
Harman, Oren and Michael R. Dietrich. 2008. Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology.
Harris, Sam. 2004. The End of Faith
Heinrich, Bernd. 2003. Winter World, The Ingenuity of Animal Survival.
Helvarg, David. 2010. Saved by the Sea: a Love Story with Fish.
Holldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 2009. The Super Organism: the Beauty Elegance and Strangeness of
Insect Societies.
Jablonski, Nina G. 2006. Skin, a Natural History.
Jones, Steve. 2000. Darwin’s Ghost.
Judson, Olivia, 2002. Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to all Creation.
Knecht, G. Bruce. 2006. Hooked, Pirates Poaching and the Perfect Fish
Laubichler, M.D. and J. Maienschein, Eds. 2007. From Embryo to Evo-Devo, a History of
Development and Evolution
Lane, Nick. 2009. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Leakey, Richard and Virginia Morell. 2001. Wildlife Wars.
Levine, G. 2006. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and Re-enchantment of World.
Losos, J. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology, Adaptive Radiation of Anoles
Losos, J.B. ed. 2011. In the Light of Evolution.
Love, M.S. 2011. Certainly more than you want to now about the Fishes of the Pacific Coast, a
Postmodern Experience.
Lund, J.R et al. 2010. Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Mann, Charles C. 2006. 1491, New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
Mann, Charles C. 2011. 1493, Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
Martin, Paul. S. 2005. Twilight of the Mammoths.
Mc Carthy, Dennis 2009. Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant
Distributions Revolutionized our Views of Life on Earth.
McGhee, George. 2011. Convergent Evolution, Limited Forms Most Beautiful.
McNeill, J.R. 2010. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
Milam, Erika 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
Evolution.
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, John A. 2002. From Genesis to Genetics, the Case of Evolution and Creationism.
Montgomery, David R. 2003. King of Fish, the Thousand-Year Run of Salmon.
Montgomery, David R. 2007. Dirt, the Erosion of Civilizations.
Moran, Jeffrey P. 2012. American Genesis, The Antievolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation
Science.
Morris, S.C. 1998. The Crucible of Creation: the Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals.
Numbers, Ronald L. 2009. Galileo Goes to Jail and other Myths about Science and Religion

Oreskes, Naomi & E. M. Conway. 2010. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists
Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,
Pauly, Daniel. 2010. Five Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems
Pianka, Eric R. and Laurie Vitt. 2003. Lizards. Windows to the Evolution of Diversity.
Pigliucci, M. 2002. Denying Evolution, Creationism, Science and the Nature of Science.
Potts, M. & T. Hayden. 2008. Sex and War, How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and
Offers a Path to a Safer World.
Roberts, Paul. 2004. The End of Oil.
Roberts, C. 2007. The Unnatural History of the Sea
Rose, MR and GV Lauder 1996. Adaptation
Rothenberg, David. 2011. Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution.
Roughgarden, J. 2004. Evolution’s Rainbow.
Shubin, Neil. 2008. Your Inner Fish.
Sachs, Jessica Snyder. 2007. Good Germs, Bad Germs
Sapp, Jan 2009. The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life
Schon, Isa et al. 2009. Lost Sex: the Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis
Shubin, Neil. 2008. Your Inner Fish
Steadman, David W. 2006. Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds
Stolzenburg, William. 2008. Where the Wild Things Were, Life, Death and Ecological Wreckage in a
Land of Vanishing Predators.
Storer, Tracy I. and Lloyd P. Tevis. 1955. California Grizzly
Turvey, S.T. 2009. Holocene Extinctions
Weiner, Jonathan. 1994. The Beak of the Finch.
Valentine, James W. 2004. On the Origin of Phyla.
Vogel, S. 1998. Cat’s Paws & Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Wallace, David. R. 2011. Chuckwalla Land, the riddle of California’s Deserts.
Wells, Spencer 2010. Pandora's Seed, The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Weber, Michael. L. 2002. From Abundance to Scarcity.
Wilson, E.O. 2012. The Social Conquest of Earth.
Zimmer, Carl. 1998. At the Water’s Edge, Fish with Fingers Whales with Legs
Zimmer, C. 2008. Microcosm, E. coli and the New Science of Life
Zimmer, C. 2009. The Tangled Bank