Biology
A Suggested Reading List for A Level Biologists
Magazines, Newspapers and journals
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
Professor Steve Jones, British Geneticist and leading science communicator on evolution and genetics.
In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny
Almost Like a Whale: The 'Origin of Species' Updated
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
Life Itself:Its Origin and Nature
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
James Watson, Molecular Biologist and Geneticist
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.
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
Ernst Mayr, Biologist
This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
George C. Williams, Professor of Biology
Steve Pinker, Psychologist and Psycholinguist
Edward O Wilson, Biologist and Naturalist
Primo Levi, Chemist
Richard Leaky, Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
Bill Bryson, Journalist and Author