Supplemental Reading List for Biology Majors:

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (the origins of the universe)
• Adam's Curse: A future without Men by Bryan Sykes (the biological role of the male gender)
• Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramon y Cajal (how scientists think)
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (the study of the universe relative to life)
• Evolution (The Triumph of an Idea) by Carl Zimmer
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of an All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (nutrition and health)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (how geography, demography and ecology shaped human civilizations)
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (interplay between civilizations and ecology)
• King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz (studies of behavior)
• Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif (seminal discoveries in microbiology in a historical context)
• Molecular Biology of the Gene, 6^th ed. by Watson, Baker, Bell, Gann, Levine and Losick (a complement to genetics and cell and molecular biology)
• Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell by Natalie Angier (an exploration of scientific research of the cell and about some of those that carry it out)
• Power, Sex, Suicide (Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life) by Nick Lane (relating aspects of cell and molecular biology to organisms)
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (bird evolution in the Galapagos Islands)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (the relationship of humans with specific plants)
• The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier (a review of important scientific issues of our time)
• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins (reconciling science and religion)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (a collection of clinical tales describing case histories of individuals with neurological disorders)
• The Origin by Irving Stone (a historical biography of Charles Darwin)
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (a historical perspective on how the concept of evolution arose)
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (the role of genes in evolution)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (history of science)
• Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology by Valentino Braitenberg (how the complexities of human and animal behavior arise from the relatively simple world of the neuron)