Random House New Releases - Science - Evolution - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz

eBook, 320 pages | Doubleday | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Evolution; Social Science - Future Studie | $13.99 | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-385-53592-2 (0-385-53592-9)

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?

As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Kimberly Farr

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz
Read by Kimberly Farr

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Evolution; Social Science - Future Studie | $22.50 | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-8041-2729-5 (0-8041-2729-8)

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz

Hardcover, 320 pages | Doubleday | Science - Philosophy & Social; Science - Evolution; Social Science - Future Studie | $26.95 | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-385-53591-5 (0-385-53591-0)

Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Soon after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter that accused him of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Realizing his error of omission, Darwin tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, but he found that history had already forgotten many of them.

Rebecca Stott goes in search of these ghosts, telling the epic story of the discovery of evolution and natural selection from Aristotle to the ninth-century Arab writer Al-Jahiz to Leonardo da Vinci to the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin des Plantes to Alfred Wallace and Erasmus Darwin, and finally to Charles Darwin himself. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly. It was an idea that was advanced over centuries by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature’s extraordinary ways—and the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

Praise for Darwin’s Ghosts

“Absorbing . . . Stott captures the breathless excitement of an investigation on the cusp of the unknown. . . . A lively, original book.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Stott’s research is broad and unerring; her book is wonderful. . . . An exhilarating romp through 2,000 years of fascinating scientific history.”—Nature

“Stott brings Darwin himself to life. . . . [She] writes with a novelist’s flair. . . . Darwin and the ‘ghosts’ so richly described in Ms. Stott’s enjoyable book are the descendants of Aristotle and Bacon and the ancestors of today’s scientists.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Riveting . . . Stott has done a wonderful job in showing just how many extraordinary people had speculated on where we came from before the great theorist dispelled all doubts.”—The Guardian (U.K.)

Proving Darwin by Gregory Chaitin

2013-02-26T00:30:00-05:00

Proving Darwin Making Biology Mathematical
Written by Gregory Chaitin

Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.

For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved by blind chance. But does Darwin’s theory function on a purely mathematical level? Has there been enough time for evolution to produce the remarkable biological diversity we see around us? It’s a question no one has yet answered—in fact, no one has attempted to answer it until now. In this illuminating and provocative book, Gregory Chaitin elucidates the mathematical scheme he’s developed that can explain life itself, and examines the works of mathematical pioneers John von Neumann and Alan Turing through the lens of biology. Fascinating and thought-provoking, Proving Darwin makes clear how biology may have found its greatest ally in mathematics.

Design in Nature by J. Peder Zane

2013-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

Design in Nature How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world.

Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.

The Universe Within by Neil Shubin

2013-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Written by Neil Shubin

WITH BLACK-AND-WHITE LINE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?

In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies—our hands, heads, and jaws—and the structures in fish and worms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. In The Universe Within, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, Shubin takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do. Starting once again with fossils, he turns his gaze skyward, showing us how the entirety of the universe’s fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies. As he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes, Shubin makes clear how the evolution of the cosmos has profoundly marked our own bodies.

The Universe Within by Neil Shubin

2013-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Written by Neil Shubin

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that took place millions of years ago created the unique qualities of the human species?

In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago. Now, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, he takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we are the way we are. Starting once again with fossils, Shubin turns his gaze skyward. He shows how the entirety of the universe's 14-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies. From our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system), he makes clear, through the working of our eyes, how the evolution of the cosmos has had profound effects on the development of human life on earth.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Universe Within by Marc Cashman

2013-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Written by Neil Shubin
Read by Marc Cashman

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey

2012-12-11T00:30:00-05:00

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Written by Richard Fortey

From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older—and odder—than many of us realize.

Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. These are not “living fossils” but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone.

Written in buoyant, sparkling prose, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is a marvelously captivating exploration of the world’s old-timers combining the very best of science writing with an explorer’s sense of adventure and wonder.

The Real Story of Risk by Glenn Croston

2012-11-06T00:30:00-05:00

The Real Story of Risk Adventures in a Hazardous World
Written by Glenn Croston

Offering a wealth of fascinating information about health, sex, money, safety, food, and the environment, this book illuminates an often-misunderstood but crucial aspect of daily life. We live in a world of risk. It waits for us in our refrigerator and surrounds us on the freeway. It's lurking in our arteries and sitting in our 401(k) accounts. Given that we deal with risk on a constant basis, we should be good at it; as it turns out, though, we're not. We're blind to common risks like heart disease (one in five deaths), but we shrink in fear from rare events like shark attacks (one in a million) and airplane crashes (one in twenty thousand). What accounts for our poor ability to perceive and react to the risks that really matter? Starting from an evolutionary perspective, the author traces our distorted perception of risk back to our ancestors, reminding readers that we are all the culmination of a long line of survivors who fought life-and-death threats such as attacks from wild animals, starvation, and disease. The fact that we have covered Earth with seven billion people is a testament to our skill at overcoming these risks. But our spectacular success has also produced our contemporary artificial world with new threats like climate change, chili dogs, and online gambling. Our brains, which evolved to deal with the ancient world, are ill equipped to process the new threats we face. Croston examines the many facets of our hazardous modern environment that we only dimly perceive. He explains why we let our guard down for a beautiful face, why slow-moving risks (like rising seas) are hard to stop, how a good story (though false) can be more persuasive than dry statistics (even alarming ones), what we fear even more than death, and many other intriguing quirks about our built-in incompetence to adequately handle present-day risks.

The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells

2012-10-31T00:30:00-05:00

The Journey of Man A Genetic Odyssey
Written by Spencer Wells

Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races?

Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, The Journey of Man is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind.

The Real Story of Risk by Glenn Croston

2012-10-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Real Story of Risk Adventures in a Hazardous World
Written by Glenn Croston

The Stardust Revolution by Jacob Berkowitz

2012-09-18T00:30:00-05:00

The Stardust Revolution The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars
Written by Jacob Berkowitz

Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which bodychecked the Earth as the pivot point of creation and joined us with the rest of the cosmos as one planet among many orbiting the Sun. Three centuries later came the second great scientific revolution: the Darwinian Revolution. It removed us from a distinct, divine biological status to place us wholly in the ebb and flow of all terrestrial life. This book describes how we’re in the midst of a third great scientific revolution, five centuries in the making: the Stardust Revolution. It is the merging of the once-disparate realms of astronomy and evolutionary biology, and of the Copernican and Darwinian Revolutions, placing life in a cosmic context. This book takes readers on a grand journey that begins on the summit of California’s Mount Wilson, where astronomers first realized that the universe is both expanding and evolving, to a radio telescope used to identify how organic molecules—the building blocks of life—are made by stars. It’s an epic story told through a scientific cast that includes some of the twentieth century’s greatest minds—including Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who discovered cosmic water—as well as the most ambitious scientific explorers of the twenty-first century, those racing to find another living planet. Today, an entirely new breed of scientists—astrobiologists and astrochemists—are taking the study of life into the space age. Astrobiologists study the origins, evolution, and distribution of life, not just on Earth, but in the universe. Stardust science is filling in the missing links in our evolutionary story, ones that extend our family tree back to the stars.

The Stardust Revolution by Jacob Berkowitz

2012-09-18T00:30:00-05:00

The Stardust Revolution The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars
Written by Jacob Berkowitz

The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle' by Richard Dawkins

2012-08-15T00:30:00-05:00

The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle' Introduction by Richard Dawkins
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Richard Dawkins

[Illustrated jacket]

Introduced by Richard Dawkins.

Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin’s The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the greatest importance: its revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural selection provoked a furious reaction that continues to this day.

The Origin of Species is here published together with Darwin’s earlier Voyage of the ‘Beagle.’ This 1839 account of the journeys to South America and the Pacific islands that first put Darwin on the track of his remarkable theories derives an added charm from his vivid description of his travels in exotic places and his eye for the piquant detail.

Man's Place in Nature by Stephen Jay Gould

2012-08-08T00:30:00-05:00

Man's Place in Nature
Written by Thomas H. Huxley
Series edited by Stephen Jay Gould

Thomas H. Huxley was one of the first supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and he did more than any other writer to advance its acceptance among scientists and nonscientists alike. His most famous book, Man’s Place in Nature, published only five years after Darwin’s The Origin of Species, offers a compelling review of primate and human paleontology, and is the first attempt to apply Darwin’s theory to human beings. As compelling a piece of analysis now as it was 140 years ago, Man’s Place in Nature is a must for every science lover’s library.

Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott

2012-06-12T00:30:00-05:00

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, he found that history had already forgotten many of them.

Darwin’s Ghosts tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, from Aristotle, walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils, to Al-Jahiz, an Arab writer in the first century, from Leonardo da Vinci, searching for fossils in the mine shafts of the Tuscan hills, to Denis Diderot in Paris, exploring the origins of species while under the surveillance of the secret police, and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes, finding evidence for evolutionary change in the natural history collections stolen during the Napoleonic wars. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature’s extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

With each chapter focusing on an early evolutionary thinker, Darwin’s Ghosts is a fascinating account of a diverse group of individuals who, despite the very real dangers of challenging a system in which everything was presumed to have been created perfectly by God, felt compelled to understand where we came from. Ultimately, Stott demonstrates, ideas—including evolution itself—evolve just as animals and plants do, by intermingling, toppling weaker notions, and developing over stretches of time. Darwin’s Ghosts presents a groundbreaking new theory of an idea that has changed our very understanding of who we are.

Praise for Darwin’s Ghosts

“Absorbing . . . Stott captures the breathless excitement of an investigation on the cusp of the unknown. . . . A lively, original book.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Stott’s research is broad and unerring; her book is wonderful. . . . An exhilarating romp through 2,000 years of fascinating scientific history.”—Nature

“Stott brings Darwin himself to life. . . . [She] writes with a novelist’s flair. . . . Darwin and the ‘ghosts’ so richly described in Ms. Stott’s enjoyable book are the descendants of Aristotle and Bacon and the ancestors of today’s scientists.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Riveting . . . Stott has done a wonderful job in showing just how many extraordinary people had speculated on where we came from before the great theorist dispelled all doubts.”—The Guardian (U.K.)

Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott

2012-06-12T00:30:00-05:00

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts by Jean Gilpin

2012-06-12T00:30:00-05:00

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott
Read by Jean Gilpin

Random House New Releases - Science - Evolution - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionWritten by Annalee Newitz

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Kimberly Farr

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionWritten by Annalee Newitz Read by Kimberly Farr

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionWritten by Annalee Newitz

Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of EvolutionWritten by Rebecca Stott

Proving Darwin by Gregory Chaitin

Proving Darwin Making Biology MathematicalWritten by Gregory Chaitin

Design in Nature by J. Peder Zane

Design in Nature How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social OrganizationsWritten by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

The Universe Within by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and PeopleWritten by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and PeopleWritten by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within by Marc Cashman

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and PeopleWritten by Neil Shubin Read by Marc Cashman

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left BehindWritten by Richard Fortey

The Real Story of Risk by Glenn Croston

The Real Story of Risk Adventures in a Hazardous WorldWritten by Glenn Croston

The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells

The Journey of Man A Genetic OdysseyWritten by Spencer Wells

The Real Story of Risk by Glenn Croston

The Real Story of Risk Adventures in a Hazardous WorldWritten by Glenn Croston

The Stardust Revolution by Jacob Berkowitz

The Stardust Revolution The New Story of Our Origin in the StarsWritten by Jacob Berkowitz

The Stardust Revolution by Jacob Berkowitz

The Stardust Revolution The New Story of Our Origin in the StarsWritten by Jacob Berkowitz

The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle' by Richard Dawkins

The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle' Introduction by Richard DawkinsWritten by Charles Darwin Introduction by Richard Dawkins

Man's Place in Nature by Stephen Jay Gould

Man's Place in Nature Written by Thomas H. Huxley Series edited by Stephen Jay Gould

Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of EvolutionWritten by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of EvolutionWritten by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts by Jean Gilpin

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of EvolutionWritten by Rebecca Stott Read by Jean Gilpin

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz
Read by Kimberly Farr

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

Proving Darwin Making Biology Mathematical
Written by Gregory Chaitin

Design in Nature How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Written by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Written by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Written by Neil Shubin
Read by Marc Cashman

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Written by Richard Fortey

The Real Story of Risk Adventures in a Hazardous World
Written by Glenn Croston

The Journey of Man A Genetic Odyssey
Written by Spencer Wells

The Real Story of Risk Adventures in a Hazardous World
Written by Glenn Croston

The Stardust Revolution The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars
Written by Jacob Berkowitz

The Stardust Revolution The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars
Written by Jacob Berkowitz

The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle' Introduction by Richard Dawkins
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Richard Dawkins

Man's Place in Nature
Written by Thomas H. Huxley
Series edited by Stephen Jay Gould

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott
Read by Jean Gilpin