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Adams, Fred. Origins of Existence: How Life Emerged in the Universe. New York: The Free Press, 2002.

Applewhite, E. J. Paradise Mislaid: Birth, Death and the Human Predicament of Being Biological. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Behe, Michael J. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: The Free Press, 1996.

Benton, Michael J. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.

Birx, H. James. Interpreting Evolution: Darwin and Teilhard de Chardin. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1991.

Blum, Harold F. Time's Arrow and Evolution. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1951.

Bonner, John Tyler. The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Bonner, John Tyler. The Evolution of Culture in Animals. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Bourriau, Janine, ed. Understanding Catastrophe: Its Impact on Life on Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Brockman, John, ed. Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.

Brooks, Daniel R. and E.O. Wiley. Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Bylinsky, Gene. Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981.

Cairns-Smith, A. G. Genetic Takeover and the Mineral Origins of Life. London: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Caporale, Lynn Helena. Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Carroll, Sean B.; Jennifer K. Grenier; and Scott D. Weatherbee. From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca. Genes, Peoples and Languages. New York: North Point Press, 2000.

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza. The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Chaisson, Eric. Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

Chaisson, Eric. Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Cloud, Preston. Cosmos, Earth and Man: A Short History of the Universe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Cohen, Jack and Ian Stewart. What Does a Martian Look Like? The Science of Extraterrestrial Life. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Cziko, Gary. Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995.

Darling, David. Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology. New York: Perseus, 2001.

Davies, Paul. Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.

Dawkins, Richard. The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982.

De Duve, Christian. Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

De Duve, Christian. Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Delsemme, Armand. Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Denton, Michael J. Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe. New York: The Free Press, 1998.

Diamond, Jared. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee. London: Radius, 1991.

Dyson, Freeman. Origins of Life. London: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Edey, Maitland A. and Donald C. Johanson. Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution. Boston: Little Brown, 1989.

Eigen, Manfred. Steps Toward Life: A Perspective on Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Eldredge, Niles. Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate At the High Table of Evolutionary Theory. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Eldredge, Niles. Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Eldredge, Niles. Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Ellis, Richard. Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea. New York: Viking, 2001.

Erwin, Douglas H. Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Fortey, Richard. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life On Earth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Fox, Ronald F. Energy and the Evolution of Life. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1988.

Goodwin, Brian. How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Dinosaurs in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 1995.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. New York: Harmony Books, 1996.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989. [British Edition]

Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. [American Edition]

Greenstein, George. The Symbiotic Universe: Life and Mind in the Cosmos. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988.

Heidmann, Jean. Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Horowitz, Norman H. To Utopia and Back: The Search for Life in the Solar System. New Haven: W. H Freeman, 1986.

Jablonka, Eva and Marion J. Lamb. Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005.

Kirschner, Marc W. and John C Gerhart. The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Koerner, David and Simon LeVay. Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Layzer, David. Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Leakey, Richard and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Margulis, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet: A New View of Evolution. New York: Perseus Books, 1998.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species. New York: Perseus Books, 2002.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution. New York: Copernicus, 1997.

Mason, Stephen F. Chemical Evolution: Origins of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Mayr, Ernst. Populations, Species and Evolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1970.

Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. New York: Perseus Books, 2001.

McFadden, Johnjoe. Quantum Evolution: The New Science of the Life Force. London: Harper Collins, 2000.

McNamara, Kenneth J. Shapes of Time: The Evolution of Growth and Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Moalem, Sharon; and Jonathan Prince. Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Monod, Jacques. Chance and Necessity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

Morowitz, Harold J. Energy Flow in Biology: Biological Organization as a Problem in Thermal Physics. New York: Academic Press, 1968.

Morris, Simon Conway. Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Murphy, Michael P. and Luke A. J. O'Neill. What is Life? The Next Fifty Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Oparin, A. I. The Origin of Life on Earth. London: Oliver and Boyd, 1957.

Parker, Andrew. In the Blink of an Eye. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2003.

Perelson, Alan S. and Stuart A. Kauffman. Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Proteins, RNA and the Immune System. Redwood City, California: Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Postgate, John. The Outer Reaches of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Poinar, George and Roberta Poinar. The Quest for Life in Amber. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Potts, Rick. Humanity's Descent: The Consequences of Ecological Instability. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1996.

Raby, Peter. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Ridley, Mark. The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings. New York: The Free Press, 2001.

Ruse, Michael. Darwinism and Its Discontents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Sagan, Carl. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: Random House, 1977.

Schwartz, Jeffrey H. Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes and the Emergence of Species. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Seielstad, George A. At the Heart of the Web: The Inevitable Genesis of Intelligent Life. Boston: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1989.

Shapiro, Robert. Origins: A Skeptics Guide to the Creation of Life On Earth. New York: Summit Books, 1986.

Shapiro, Robert. Planetary Dreams: The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Stewart, Ian; and Jack Cohen. Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind. Cabridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Tattersall, Ian. Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

Taylor, Gordon Rattray. The Great Evolution Mystery. New York: Harper and Row, 1983.

Tributsch, Helmut. How Life Learned to Live: Adaptation in Nature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1982.

Trinkaus, Erik and Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Vermeij, Geerat J. Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Ward, Peter D. and Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. New York: Copernicus, 2000.

Webb, Stephen. If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens... Where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial LIfe. New York: Perseus Publishing, 2002.

White, Michael and John Gribbin. Darwin: A Life in Science. NewYork: Dutton, 1995.

Wills, Christopher and Jeffrey Bada. The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2000.

Zimmer, Carl. At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life. New York: The Free Press, 1998.

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