Genre :: Biology (3 books)

  • On the Origin of Species

    #292

    On the Origin of Species

    by Charles Darwin

    (4 Reviews)

    74 Points

    "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past..."

  • Silent Spring

    #504

    Silent Spring

    by Rachel Carson

    (1 Review)

    24 Points

    "In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."

  • The Selfish Gene

    #577

    The Selfish Gene

    by Richard Dawkins

    (1 Review)

    10 Points

    "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."