Source Readings
- Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, and Places (c. 420 B.C.)
- Aristotle, History of Animals (c. 330 B.C.)
- William Harvey, De Motu Cordis (1628)
- Comte de Buffon, Natural History: General and Particular (1749–1788)
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy (1809)
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865)
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)
- Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape (1967)
- James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968)
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976)
- E. O. Wilson, On Human Nature (1978)
- James Lovelock, Gaia (1979)
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981)
- Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? (1944)
- Walter Alvarez, T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (1997)
- Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)