Bonus Opportunity Animal Biology (Bio 202): Winter 2011
By turning in a review (critique or summary) of one of the following books, up to 25 bonus points will be added into the final point total. Another book may be acceptable, but only with Gobalet’s prior approval and the responsibility of locating the book is up to you. The number of points awarded will depend on the quality, length, and difficulty of the book and the quality of the paper. A printed copy and an electronic version (to ) must be submitted by 9:30 am Feb. 7 2011. The three-page summary should be single spaced using # 12 font, and 1” left justified margins. The top of the first page should follow this format:
Animal Biology Bonus Book Review
Dawkins, Richard. 2004. The Ancestors Tale.
David Zabriski
Feb. 7, 2011
Highly Recommended:
Brown, Lester R. 2009. Plan B 4.0.
Chouinard, Yvon. 2006. Let my People go Surfing, the education of a reluctant
Businessman.
Dawkins, Richard. 2004. The Ancestors Tale.
Diamond, Jared. 2004. Collapse.
Eisner, Thomas. 2003. For Love of Insects.
Eisner, T., M. Eisner and M. Siegler. 2005. Secret Weapons.
Flannery, Tim. 1994 The Future Eaters
Flannery, Tim. 2005. The Weather Makers. The History and Future Impact of Climate Change.
Futuyma, D. J. 1995. Science on Trial.
Fortey, Richard. 1997. Life the First Four Billion Years.
Montgomery, David R. 2003. King of Fish, the Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
Montgomery, D.R. 2007. Dirt, the Erosion of Civilizations.
Reisner, Marc. 1986. Cadillac Desert.
Roberts, Callum. 2007. The Unnatural History of the Sea.
Roberts, Paul. 2005. The End of Oil.
Sagan, Carl. 1996. The Demon-Haunted World.
Stolzenburg. W. 2008. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death and Ecological
Wreckage in a land of Vanishing Predators.
Zimmer, Karl. 2000. Parasite Rex.
Others:
Aczel, Amir D. 2007. The Jesuit and the Skull.
Aitchison, Stewart. 2009. The Desert Islands of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.
Alt, David. 2001. Glacial Lake Missoula and its Humongous Floods.
Alvarez,Walter. 1997. T. rex and the Crater of Doom.
Beccaloni, Jan. 2009. Arachnids
Barlow, George W. 2000. The Cichlid Fishes.
Barlow, Connnie. 2001. Ghosts of Evolution.
Bavington, Dean and Graeme Wynn 2010. Managed Annihilation: an Unnatural
History of the Cod Collapse.
Brown, Lester R. 2009. Plan B 4.0.
Benidickson, J. 2007. The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage.
Benton, Michael J. 2008. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of
all Time.
Berra, Tim. 2009. Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man.
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 and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity
from Darwin to Intelligent Design.
Bowler, P. J. 2009. Science for All, the Popularization of Science in Early 2oth Century.
Brusca, Richard C. 2010. The Gulf of California Biodiversity and Conservation
Bryson, B. 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.
Burton, Frances D. 2009. Fire, the Spark that Ignited Human Evolution.
Carroll. S. B. 2005. Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The New Science of Evo Devo.
Carroll, S.B. 2006. Making of the Fittest: DNA, Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution.
Carroll, S.B. 2009. Into the Jungle, great adventures in search for evolution.
Carroll, S.B. 2009. Remarkable Creatures, Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin
of Species.
Carson, Rachael. 1962. Silent Spring.
Chiappe, Luis M. 2007. Glorified Dinosaurs: the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.
Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Eds. 2008. Sustaining Life; How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity.
Clover, Charles. 2006. The End of the Line. How Overfishing is Changing the World and
What We Eat.
Conn. P.M. and J.V. Parker 2008. The Animal Research War
Coyle, Jerry A. 2009. Why Evolution is True.
Darby, Andrew. 2007. Harpoon, into the Heart of Whaling.
Dawkins, Richard.1976. The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins, Richard. 1996. The Blind Watchmaker.
Dawkins, Richard. 2006. The God Delusion.
Dawkins, Richard. 2009. The Greatest Show on Earth.
Dawkins, Richard. 2009. Oxford Book of Modern Scientific Writing
Dennett, Daniel C. 2007. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Diamond, J. 1992. The Third Chimpanzee.
Diamond, J. 1997. Why Is Sex Fun?
Drisdelle, R. 2010. Parasites, tales of humanities most unwelcome guests
Dunn, R. 2008. Lost Land of the Dodo; An Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion
and Rodriquez.
Dusenbery, D. B. 2009. Living at Mico Scale: the Unexpected Physics of Being Small.
Earl, Sylvia. 2009. The World in Blue: How our Fate and the Ocean’s are One.
Eldridge, Niles. 2000. The Triumph of Evolution, the Failure of Creationism.
Ellis, Richard. 2008. Tuna, a Love Story.
Erwin, D. 2006. Extinction: How Life on Earth nearly ended 250 million years ago
Evans, Arthur V. & C. L. Bellamy. 1996. An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles.
Fagan, Brian. 2000. The Little Ice Age.
Fagan, Brian. 2006. Fish on Friday.
Fagan, B. 2008.The Great Warming: Climate Change & the Rise & Fall of Civilizations.
Fara, Patricia 2009. Science, a Four Thousand Year History
Fawcett, Ben 2008. The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis.
Forsyth, Adrian, and Ken Miyata. 1984. Tropical Nature, Life and Death in the Rain
Forests of Central and South America.
Fortey, Richard. 2000. Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
Franklin, H. Bruce. 2007. The Most Important Fish in the Sea.
Gaines, Susan M. et al. 2009. Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Early
History. Oxford U. Press
Gazzaniga, Michael S. 2008. Human: the Science Behind what Makes us Unique.
George, Rose. 2008. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and
Why it Matters.
Gilbert, S.F. & D. Epel. 2009. Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating
Epigenetics, Medicine and Evolution.
Gluckman, P. et al. 2009. Principles of Evolutionary Medicine.
Goodall, Jane. 2005. Harvest for Hope.
Greenberg, Paul. 2010. Four Fish: the Future of the Last Wild Food.
Grubbs, Morris A. 2007. Conversations with Wendell Berry.
Gore, A. 2009. Our Choice: a Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
Gould, Stephen J. 1989. Wonderful Life.
Gould Steven J. 2002. Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life.
Gordon, J. E.1981. Structures or Why Things Don’t Fall Down.
Grayson, Don.1993. The Desert’s Past.
Guha, Ramachandra. 2006. How Much Should a Person Consume?
Hardin, Garret. 1999. The Ostrich Factor.
Harman, Oren and M. R. Dietrich. 2008. Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology.
Harris, Michael. 1998. Lament for an Ocean.
Harris, Sam. 2006. Letter to a Christian Nation.
Harris, S. 2004. The End of Faith.
Harris, Sam 2010. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.
Heinberg, R. and D. Lerch. 2010. The Post Carbon Reader, managing the 21st century’s sustainability crisis.
Heinrich, Bernd. 1989. Ravens in Winter.
Heinrich, Bernd. 2003. The Ingenuity of Animal Survival.
Heinrich, Bernd. 2003. Winter World.
Heinrich, Bernd. 1999. Mind of the Raven.
Heinrich, Bernd. 2000. Racing the Antelope. also titled, Why We Run.
Helvarg, David. 2010. Saved by the Sea: a Love Story with Fish.
Holldobler, B and E.O. Wilson. 1994. Journey to the Ants.
Holldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 2008. The Superorganism: Beauty, Elegance and
Strangeness
Ingraham, John L. 2010. March of the Microbes: Sighing the Unseen
Jablonski, Nina G. 2006. Skin, a Natural History.
Jones, Steve. 2000. Darwin’s Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated.
Jones, Steve. 2003. Y, the descent of men.
Jones, Van. 2008. The Green Collar Economy.
Judson, Olivia, 2002. Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to all Creation.
Keller, Laurent, and Elisabeth Gordon. 2009. The Lives of Ants.
Knecht, G. Bruce. 2006. Hooked, Pirates Poaching and the Perfect Fish.
Knoll, A. H. 2003. Life on a Young Planet.
Kolata, Gina. 1999. Flu, the Story of the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the
Search for the Virus that Caused It.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. 2006. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Kurlansky, Mark, 1997, Cod, a Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.
Lane, Nick. 2010. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Lane, Nick. 2004. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World.
Lane, Nick. 2009. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.
Leakey, R. and R. Lewin 1995. The Sixth Extinction.
Leakey, Richard and Virginia Morell. 2001. Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures.
Losos, Jonathan B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree.
Lott, Dale F. 2002. American Bison.
Low, Bobbi S. 2000. Why Sex Matters, A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior.
Lund, J.R et al. (Moyle). 2010. Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta.
Mann, Charles C. 2006. 1491, New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus.
Martin, Robert. A. 2004. Missing Links. Evolutionary Concepts & Transitions thu Time.
Martin, Paul. S. 2005. Twilight of the Mammoths.
Margulis, Lynn. 1998. Symbiotic Planet, a New View of Evolution.
Mayr, Ernst. 2004. What makes Biology Unique?
Minelli, Alessandro. 2009. Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution.
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.
Moorehead, Allan 1987. The Fatal Impact.
Mueller, G.A. and P. Marsh 2002. Lost, a Desert River and its Native Fishes: A
Historical Perspective of the Lower Colorado River.
Numbers, R.L. 2009. Galileo Goes to Jail and other myths about science and religion.
Olson, Steve. 2002. Mapping Human History, Genes Race, and our Common Origins.
Palmer, Douglas. 2009. Evolution, the Story of Life.
Palumbi, Stephen R. 2001. The Evolution Explosion, How Humans Cause Rapid
Evolutionary Change.
Pauly, Daniel. 2010. Five Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.
Pigliucci, Massimo.2002.Denying Evolution, Creationism, Science & Nature of Science.
Pigliucci, Massimo and Jonathan Kaplan. 2006. Making Sense of Evolution.
Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Potts, M. & T. Hayden. 2008. Sex and War, How Biology Explains Warfare and
Terrorism and Offers a Path to a safer World.
Powell, J.L. 1998. Night Comes to the Cretaceous.
Preston, Richard. 2007. The Wild Trees.
Prindle, D. F. 2009. Steven .J. Gould and the Politics of Evolution.
Ridley, Matt. 2000. Genome. The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters.
Ridley, M. 2003. The Red Queen; Sex and the evolution of Human Nature.
Roughgarden, Joan. 2004. Evolution’s Rainbow. Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in
Nature and People.
Russell, Dick. 2005. Striper Wars.
Ruse, Michael and Joseph Travis. 2009. Evolution, the First Four Billion years.
Ryan, William and Walter Pitman 1998. Noah’s Flood. Scientific Discoveries about the
Event That Changed History.
Sapp. Jan. 2009. The New Foundation of Evolution: on the Tree of Life.
Sachs, Jessica Snyder. 2007. Good Germs, Bad Germs.
Saplosky, R. M. 2004. Why Zebras don’t Get Ulcers. 3rd edition
Schopf. J. William. 1999. Cradle of Life.
Shubin, Neil. 2008. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the Human Body.
Shlain, L. 2003. Sex, Time, and Power: How Woman’s Sexuality Shaped Human
Evolution
Soalem, Sharon. 2007. Survival of the Sickest
Smith, Douglas W. and G. Ferguson. 2008. Decade of the Wolf
Steadman, David W. 2006. Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds.
Storer, Tracy I. and Lloyd P. Tevis. 1955. California Grizzly
Vogel, Steven.1998. Cat’s Paws & Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People.
Walter, Chip. 2006. Thumbs, Toes, and Tears and other Traits that make us Human.
Ward, Peter D. 2004. Gorgon.
Weber, Michael. L. 2002. From Abundance to Scarcity
Weiner, Jonathan. 1994. The Beak of the Finch.
Wells, Spencer. 2010. Pandora’s Seed; the Unforeseen Cost of Civilization.
Wilson, Edward O. 2002. The Future of Life.
Wrangham, Richard. 2009. Catching Fire, how Cooking Made us Human.
Yoon, Carol K. 2009. Naming Nature: the clash Between Instinct and Science.
Zimmer, Carl. 1998. At the Water’s Edge, Fish with Fingers Whales with Legs.
Zimmer, C. 2001. Evolution, the Triumph on an Idea.
Zimmer, C. 2004. Soul Made Flesh. The Discovery of the Brain and How it Changed
the World.
Zimmer, C. 2008. Microcosm, E. coli and the new Science of Life.
Zimmer, C. 2009. The Tangled Bank, and Introduction to Evolution.