Darwin Web resources & reading list

Main contents

  • Web Resources & reading list
  • Websites
  • Recommended Reading List
    • Geology and Fossils
    • Human Evolution
    • Genetics
    • General Evolution
    • For Children

Websites:

Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Darwin200

http://www.darwin200.org/

Darwin Correspondence Project

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/

Darwin the Geologist

http://darwinthegeologist.org/

British Society for Developmental Biology

http://www.bms.ed.ac.uk/services/webspace/bsdb/WELCOME.HTM

Sean B Carroll

http://seanbcarroll.com/

Understanding Evolution at Berkeley

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php

Wellcome Trust Tree of Life

http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org/

Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ahob/index_2.html

Becoming Human

http://www.becominghuman.org/

Human Origins at the Smithsonian

http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/

Talk Origins

http://www.talkorigins.org/

Recommended Reading List

Many of the books on this list fit into more than one category, and all are about evolution in one way or another. If you have any specific areas of interest, ask and we can make a more precise recommendation.

Charles Darwin:

  • Darwin’s Island - Steve Jones
  • Darwin - Adrian Desmond, James Moore
  • Darwin’s Sacred Cause - Adrian Desmond, James Moore
  • On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  • The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin

Geology and Fossils:

  • Life: An Unautorised Biography - Richard Fortey
  • Trilobite! - Richard Fortey
  • The Earth: An Intimate History
  • The Age of the Earth - G.Brent Dalrymple
  • Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies - G.Brent Dalrymple
  • Taking Wing - Pat Shipman

Human Evolution:

  • The Complete World of Human Evolution - Chris Stringer
  • Homo britannicus - Chris Stringer

Genetics:

  • Genetics for Dummies
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Sean B Carroll
  • The Making of the Fittest - Sean B Carroll
  • Remarkable Creatures - Sean B. Carroll
  • The Language of the Genes - Steve Jones
  • Y: The Descent of Men - Steve Jones

General Evolution:

  • Ancestral Roots - Timothy Clack
  • Darwin for Beginners - Jonathan Miller
  • Evolution: Triumph of an Idea - Carl Zimmer
  • Evolution for Dummies
  • Almost a Whale - Steve Jones
  • Evolution - Donald R. Prothero
  • Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin
  • Wonderful Life - Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
  • The Origins of Life - John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary
  • Missing Links - Robert Martin
  • The Talking Ape - Robbins Burling
  • Evolution - Mark Ridley

For Children:

  • The Evolution Revolution - Robert Winston
  • Charles Darwin - Alan Gibbons, Leo Brown
  • Optical Allusions - Jay Hosler
  • Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith - Deborah Heiligman
  • The True Adventures of Charley Darwin - Carolyn Meyer
  • Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story - Lisa Westberg Peters, Lauren Stringer
  • The Dawn of Life - Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly
  • Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution - Steve Jenkins
  • The Sandwalk Adventures - Jay Hosler
  • When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth - Hannah Bonner
  • When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm - Hannah Bonner
  • The Voyage of the Beetle - Anne H Weaver, George Lawrence
  • Darwin and Evolution for Kids - Kristan Lawson
  • The Beast in You! - Marc McCutcheon
  • Eyewitness: Evolution - Linda Gamlin
  • Stones & Bones - Char Matejovsky
  • Bones, Brains and DNA - Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
  • Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin - Fiona MacDonald, Mark Bergin