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Biology

 

A Suggested Reading List for A Level Biologists

 

Magazines, Newspapers and journals

New Scientist

Scientific American

Nature

Science

Biological Sciences Review

British Medical Journal

Any scientific articles in newspapers (eg the Guardian on Wednesday)

 

Websites

Virtual Cell Website – An interactive cell biology site

DNAI Code Website – Explore the genetic code

The Nobel Prize – Details of the history of the best scientific discoveries

Nature Journal – The site of the scientific journal

The Royal Society – Podcasts, news and interviews with scientists about recent scientific developments

The Natural History Museum – The London Natural History Museum’s website with lots of interesting educational material

The British Medical Journal – The website of the British Medical Journal

BBC Science & Environment News - The BBC news page for Science and the Environment

 

Books

Richard Dawkins, British Evoluntionary Biologist and Zoologist - Richard Dawkins Website

The Selfish Gene

The Blind Watchmaker

Unweaving the Rainbow

Climbing Mount Improbable

The Ancestor’s Tale

 

Professor Steve Jones, British Geneticist and leading science communicator on evolution and genetics.

Y: The Descent of Men

In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny

Almost Like a Whale: The 'Origin of Species' Updated 

The Language of the genes

 

Matt Ridley, British Science writer.

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human 

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

 

Francis Crick (discoverer of the Genetic Code) was a Molecular Biologist, Biophysicist and Neuroscientist - The Francis Crick Institute

Of Molecules and Men 

Life Itself:Its Origin and Nature

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

 

James Watson, Molecular Biologist and Geneticist

DNA: The Secret of Life

The Double Helix

 

Lewis Thomas, physicist and poet.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher Barry Gibb

 

Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist and Biologist.

The Origin of Species

 

Armand Marie Leroi, Professor of evolutionary developmental biology.

Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body

 

David S. Goodsell, Artist - Molecular Art/Molecular Science Website

The Machinery of Life

 

Ernst Mayr, Biologist

This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
 

George C. Williams, Professor of Biology

Plan and Purpose in Nature

 

Steve Pinker, Psychologist and Psycholinguist

The Language Instinct

 

Edward O Wilson, Biologist and Naturalist

The Diversity of Life

 

Primo Levi, Chemist

The Periodic Table

 

Richard Leaky, Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist

The Origin of Humankind

 

Bill Bryson, Journalist and Author

A Short History of Nearly Everything