Suggested Reading
for A Level Biologists
The Origin Of Species, Charles Darwin
Richard Dawkins: -
- The Selfish Gene
- The Blind Watchmaker
- Unweaving the Rainbow
- Climbing Mount Improbable
- The Ancestor’s Tale
Steve Jones: -
- Y: The Descent of Men
- In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny
- Almost Like a Whale: The 'Origin of Species' Updated
Matt Ridley: -
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- The Language of Genes
- Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
- Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
The Rough Guide to the Brain (Rough Guides Reference Titles), Barry Gibb
Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body, Armand Marie Leroi
James Watson: -
- DNA: The Secret of Life
- The Double Helix: Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
The Machinery of Life, David S. Goodsell
This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World, Ernst Mayr.
Lewis Thomas: -
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
Plan and Purpose in Nature, George C. Williams
Magazines and journals
- New Scientist
- Nature
- Science
- Biological Sciences Review