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H. Evolutionary Molecular Biology

  • Alexander, Denis R. The Language of Genetics: An Introduction. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2011.
  • Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
  • Carroll, Sean B. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
  • Coen, Enrico. The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Conroy, Glenn C. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
  • Conway Morris, Simon. Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
  • Depew, D. J. and B. H. Weber. Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1995.
  • Duve, Christian de. Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Gould, Stephen Jay. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • Jablonka, Eva & Marion Lamb. Evolution in Four Dimensions - Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
  • Kirschner, Marc & John Gerhart. The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Mayr, Ernst. This is Biology: The Science of the Living World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
  • Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
  • Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane. Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development. Carlsbad, CA: Kales Press, 2006.
  • Ridley, Matt. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
  • Ruse, Michael, editor. Philosophy of Biology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Schwartz, Jeffrey H. Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species. New York: John Wiley, 1999.
  • Sober, Elliott. The Philosophy of Biology. 2nd edition. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000.
  • Sterelny, Kim & Paul E. Griffiths. Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  • Turner, J. Scott. The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

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