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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
- http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/index.htm – An interactive cell biology site
- http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG – A web site showing illustrations of many processes of biotechnology
- http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld – Visit the world of electron-microscopy
- http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html – Explore the genetic code
- http://nobelprize.org – Details of the history of the best scientific discoveries
- http://nature.com – The site of the scientific journal
- http://royalsociety.org – Podcasts, news and interviews with scientists about recent scientific developments
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk – The London Natural History Museum’s website with lots of interesting educational material
- http://www.bmj.com – The website of the British Medical Journal
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment - The BBC news page for Science and the Environment
Books
Richard Dawkins:
The Selfish Gene
The Blind Watchmaker
Unweaving the Rainbow
Climbing Mount Improbable
The Ancestor’s Tale
Steve Jones:
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
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Language of Genes
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
James Watson:
DNA: The Secret of Life
The Double Helix: Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Lewis Thomas:
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: The origin of species
Armand Marie Leroi: Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
David S. Goodsell: The Machinery of Life
Ernst Mayr: This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
George C. Williams: Plan and Purpose in Nature
Steve Pinker: The Language Instinct
Edward O Wilson: The Diversity of Life
Primo Levi: The Periodic Table
Richard Leaky: The Origin of Humankind
Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything