The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees Creation Revisited by Peter Atkins The Ant and the Peacock by Helena Cronin The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher Mankind Evolving by Theodosius Dobzhansky Adaptation and Natural Selection by G. C. Williams Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature by Francis Crick Genome by Matt Ridley "Theoretical Biology in the Third Millennium" by Sydney Brenner The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones "On Being the Right Size", an essay by J. B. S. Haldane The Explanation of Organic Diversity by Mark Ridley "The Importance of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Animal Flight" by John Maynard Smith Man in the Universe by Fred Hoyle On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson The Meaning of Evolution by G. G. Simpson Trilobite! by Richard Fortey The Mind Machine by Colin Blakemore Mirrors in Mind by Richard Gregory "One Self: A Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness" by Nicholas Humphrey The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond The Life of the Robin by David Lack Curious Naturalists by Niko Tinbergen Social Evolution by Robert Trivers The Open Sea by Alister Hardy The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson "How Flowers Changed the World" by Loren Eiseley The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson