I've noticed a lot of popular science books are written by journalists. So I wonder whether you could recommend some books, particularly about evolution, sea creatures, maybe geology, or some niche topics written by actual nature scientists? I'm looking for something a bit easier than college textbooks, but if there are some that could be read by a layman, you can recommend them too 🙂 It would be nice if the author was an esteemed scientist, peer reviewed etc because what's important to me it's accuracy and being as scientific and factual as possible in the world of shifting paradigms. Thank you! 🙂
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The Story Of Earth – Robert M. Hazen
Edit: not all of these are about nature, but they’re all written by scientists. I’ve read all of these in the last few years, and rated all of them 4 or 5 stars (out of 5)
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Dragons of Eden and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan
Anything by John McPhee.
I very much appreciate the spirit of your question, but bear in mind that even among excellent scientists of integrity, opinions about interpretation very greatly.