 | Darwin by Adrian Desmond
Buy new: £12.34 / Used from: £9.85 The best one volume biography: incredibly evocative of the period, and crammed with facts
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 | Charles Darwin: Voyaging by J Browne
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £9.99 The best two volume biography (!): more novelistic, comes closer to making you feel you know Darwin himself
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 | Charles Darwin: Power of Place v. 2: The Power of Place by Janet Browne
Buy new: £11.04 / Used from: £16.77 Second volume of the above - covers the writing of the Origin and the rest of his life
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 | Darwin's "Origin of Species": A Biography (Books That Shook the World) by Janet Browne
Buy used from: £5.10 A wonderful little book about the writing of the Origin. Really good short read
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 | Autobiographies (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £4.05 The man himself in his own words. Lovely to read his own voice telling the story. Don't miss this, but don't necessarily rely on it either.
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 | On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy new: £55.82 / Used from: £62.08 Not yet published, but looks likely to be the most authoritative edition yet published
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 | On the Origin of Species (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.54 Much cheaper than the above edition! And with a great introduction by Beer, a specialist in Darwin's cultural influence
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 | The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex (Penguin Classics) by Adrian Desmond
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.78 A brilliant later work by Darwin that ranges through the natural world, from peacocks to spaniels.
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 | The Voyage of the "Beagle": Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.57 If you want to know what it was like to see the world through completely fresh ideas, try this book. Amazing.
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 | Darwin's Garden by Michael Boulter
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £9.50 Wonderful title, but surprisingly dissatisfying book. Avoid.
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 | The Beak of the Finch: Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.00 Total genius, mapping one story of evolution taking place before the eyes of scientists observing Galapagan finches
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £3.50 Completely controversial, utterly readable, and wonderfully convincing. A classic you can't ignore, and Dawkins at his best.
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 | Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.89 Fantastically enjoyable romp through the latest on nature vs nurture, with many surprising conclusions
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 | Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.01 Evocative, detailed account of the years Darwin spent avoiding the origin of species by working on tiny barnacles
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 | Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science by Jim Endersby
Buy new: £22.80 / Used from: £23.04 A wonderful book: very academic but still readable account of Darwin's best friend, Joseph Hooker
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 | Ever since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by S J Gould
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.90 The great writer who got me interested to begin with: Stephen Jay Gould looks at all the ways Darwin has been misused
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 | Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £3.00 Never knew fossils of blobby backboneless sea creatures could move you to tears? Try this
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 | Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £5.20 Explains how there's still deep controversy in the world of evolutionary theory
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 | Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond
Buy new: £16.17 / Used from: £14.62 Expected any minute, and knowing these authors, sure to be a treat
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 | Doubting Darwin?: Creationist Designs on Evolution (Blackwell Public Philosophy) (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series) by Sahotra Sarkar
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £5.50 Makes it clear exactly how important it is for evolutionists to stick together. A clear rebuttal of Intelligent Design theory with lots of good evidence
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 | Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald R. Prothero
Buy new: £15.54 / Used from: £13.65 A detailed systematic guide to the fossil evidence for evolution, covering the whole history of life. Targetted at creationism, and textbook quality.
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