Subject archive: evolutionary biology

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of evolutionary biology published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Third Edition)
  2. Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth
  3. On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
  4. Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life
  5. Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
  6. Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
  7. Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life
  8. Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
  9. Imperfection: A Natural History
  10. Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection
  11. Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
  12. Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe
  13. The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
  14. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
  15. A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness
  16. Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
  17. On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Species Notebook of 1855-1859
  18. Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
  19. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity
  20. Cave Biodiversity: Speciation and Diversity of Subterranean Fauna
  21. A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans
  22. The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles
  23. Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More
  24. From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution
  25. Tears for Crocodilia: Evolution, Ecology, and the Disappearance of One of the World’s Most Ancient Animals
  26. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
  27. Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
  28. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
  29. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
  30. The Process of Animal Domestication
  31. A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
  32. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
  33. Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
  34. Observing Evolution: Peppered Moths and the Discovery of Parallel Melanism
  35. A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
  36. Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature
  37. The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
  38. On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
  39. Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
  40. The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
  41. The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
  42. What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
  43. The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
  44. Spider Webs: Behavior, Function, and Evolution
  45. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
  46. A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
  47. New World Monkeys: The Evolutionary Odyssey
  48. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
  49. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
  50. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
  51. The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
  52. Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
  53. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
  54. Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
  55. Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
  56. Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful
  57. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
  58. On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins
  59. Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life
  60. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
  61. Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can
  62. The Invertebrate Tree of Life
  63. The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
  64. The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution
  65. The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution
  66. Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
  67. Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis
  68. Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals
  69. Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
  70. Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
  71. Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
  72. The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
  73. I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
  74. Origins: How the Earth Made Us
  75. Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies
  76. The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent
  77. Lost Anatomies: The Evolution of the Human Form
  78. The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
  79. Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be
  80. Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
  81. The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend
  82. Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
  83. Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution
  84. Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
  85. When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
  86. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
  87. Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature
  88. The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
  89. The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart
  90. Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution
  91. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
  92. The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution
  93. After Man: A Zoology of the Future
  94. Unnatural Selection
  95. The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved
  96. A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
  97. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
  98. Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life
  99. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
  100. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
  101. The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet
  102. Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans
  103. Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
  104. The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
  105. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion
  106. Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
  107. Improbable Destinies: How Predictable is Evolution?