Recommend some good books on Evolution

[Tinker_Grey]

@Cuckoorex

Finding Darwin’s God by Kenneth Miller. Although the stated goal of the book is to argue that acceptance of evolution is not incompatible with theism, along the way Miller makes short work of most of the popular anti-evolution arguments, including the “irreducible complexity” argument of Behe and Philip Johnson’s aforementioned book Darwin on Trial.

I second this.

[John_Mace]

@Rashak Mani

hmmm… I can afford only so much time and money… I can’t buy all 3 books. Of these 3 which 2 should I buy ?

a. On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson

b. Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul R. Ehrlich

c. The Third Chimpanzee

Add rank them c, a, b. (Wilson won the Pulitzer prize for “a”, btw)

You might want to see if your library has them. I usually check these types of books out first, then decide which one I will read. And if you have stores like Borders or Barnes/Noble in Brazil, they don’t mind if you spend a good of time thumbing thru books before buy them.

And just to complicate things a bit more, you should also check out Genes, Languages, and People per my earlier post. I’d recommend that one over any of the others anyday.

[Rashak_Mani]

@John Mace

You might want to see if your library has them. I usually check these types of books out first, then decide which one I will read. And if you have stores like Borders or Barnes/Noble in Brazil, they don’t mind if you spend a good of time thumbing thru books before buy them.

And just to complicate things a bit more, you should also check out Genes, Languages, and People per my earlier post. I’d recommend that one over any of the others anyday.

hehe… no such thing as an amazon here… well not with english speaking books. I usually order it in Amazon and just pay the horrendous shipping bills. I never read translations into portuguese if they are originally in english either…

I’ll check out this last recomendation in amazon…

[Futile_Gesture]

@John Mace

“The Rise and Fall”? I think you are thinking of just “The Third Chimpanzee”. I’ve never heard of the title you mention, unless Diamond has published a new book not listed on Amazon.com.

Looks like it was given a slightly different title in the UK from the US. Can’t think why, except to emphasis Diamond’s warning that our evolutionary traits that have been our strengths for so llong can so easily cause our downfall.

It’s a pretty good book, though somewhat dated.

Have we evolved that much since 1991? (Just kidding. But has evolutionary theory changed so significantly since then either?)

[Loopydude]

@Futile Gesture

But has evolutionary theory changed so significantly since then either?

The basic premise has not changed at all. But new information supporting the theory, as well as new applications for the concept of natural selection are cropping up all the time. And then there’s always Darwin’s debunkers, who usually illicit another spate of book-writing whenever they come up with a new “proof” that Darwin was wrong.

There’s actually a decent article in either the current or the last issue of Natl. Geographic, titled “Was Darwin Wrong?”. I won’t give away what the answer is.