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)