Recommended Biology Literature

A very incomplete and biased selection:

• The Evolution of Cooperation.
  Robert Axelrod.
  Basic Books, 1984. [See this book at Amazon.com]

• The Blind Watchmaker.
  Richard Dawkins.
  Longman, 1986; Reissue Edition: Norton 1996. [See this book at Amazon.com]

• A Guided Tour of the Living Cell. 2 Volumes.
  Christian de Duve.
  Scientific American Library, Freeman Press, 1984. [See this volume at Amazon.com] [See this volume at Amazon.com] [See this student edition at Amazon.com]

• The Machinery of Life.
  David S. Goodsell.
  Springer, 1992 (reprinted 1998). [See this hardcover book at Amazon.com] [See this paperback reprint at Amazon.com]

• This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World.
  Ernst Mayr.
  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997. [See this book at Amazon.com]

• Lewis Thomas.
  The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.
  Bantam Books, 1974. [See this book at Amazon.com]
  The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher.
  Bantam Books, 1979. [See this book at Amazon.com]
  

• Plan and Purpose in Nature.
  George C. Williams.
  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. [See this book at Amazon.com]