Hi! I’m an undergrad taking a “Life Science” course, and we have an extra credit book report option. The class focuses a lot on evolution and the brain/neuroscience.
We can either pick from a list the professor gave us or get approval for any other science-related nonfiction book. I really want something that’s interesting, readable, not super long, and not so dense that I want to scream halfway through.
Here’s the list he gave us:
• Richard Dawkins — The Selfish Gene
• Peter Godfrey-Smith — Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
• Anil Seth — Being You
• Yuval Noah Harari — Sapiens
• Jared Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel
If you’ve read any of these and recommend one, or if you have recs that fit this vibe (evolution, neuroscience, biology, behavior, consciousness, etc.), that would be great! Please lmk 🫶
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Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach.
Everything is tuberculosis, why fish don’t exist, brain on fire,
Anything by Godfrey-Smith is great.
Instead of Harari or Diamond I’d suggest *The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow.
Other great relevant options:
*An immense world* by Ed Yong
*Astrobiology* by Plaxco and Gross
*Otherlands* by Thomas Halliday
*Braiding sweetgrass* by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Guns germs and steel is actually kind of a banger. He’s got a follow up but it’s more focused on climate. If you want something different /maaaaybe Immune by Phillip Dettmer. Or On the origins of Evolution by John and Mary Gribben.