READING SUGGESTIONS

My comments on Nagel prompted a request from Larry K. for some of my sister's reading recommendations.  She gave me four titles:

Sean B. Carroll -- The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

 

Sean B. Carroll -- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb -- Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

 

Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart -- The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

 

In addition, there are the following outstanding books by Nick Lane which she led me to some time ago:

 

Oxygen:  The Molecule That Made The World

 

Power, Sex, Suicide:  Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

 

Life Ascending:  The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

 

Any one of these, I think, would be a revelation to those who are unaware of the astonishing work now being done in Biology.