Recommended Readings
(Last updated on July 31, 2017)
Alcock J. (2001) TheTriumph of Sociobiology . Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Ali S. (1985) The Fall of a Sparrow . Oxford University Press, Delhi
Ananthaswamy A. (2015) The Man Who Wasn't There. Penguin Random House , New York.
Anderson, M. T. 2012. The Exquisite Corpse Adventure , URL: http://www.thencbla.org/Exquisite_Corpse/exquisite_home.html
Axelrod R. (1984) The Evolution of Co-operation (Foreword by Richard Dawkins). Basic Books Inc., New York
Ayala F.J. (2007) Darwin's Gift To Science and Religion . Joseph Henry Press, Washington,D.C.
Badcock C. (1995) PsychoDarwinism The new synthesis of Darwin and Freud. Flamingo, London
Barash D. (1979) Sociobiology: The Whisperings Within. Fontana/Collins, Great Britain
Barass R. (1978) Scientists Must Write - A guide to better writing for scientists, engineers and students (Second Edition). Chapman and Hall , London
Bateson P. and Martin P. (2000) Design For a Life - How Behaviour Develops. Vintage, London
Berg M. and Seeber B.K. (2016) Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
Beteille A. (2006) Ideology and Social Science . Penguin Books, New Delhi
Bird K. and Sherwin M.J. (2005) American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Vintage Books, New York
Birkhead T. (2012) Bird Sense - What It's Like to Be a Bird . Bloomsbury, London
Bonner J.T. (2002) Lives of a Biologist - Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science . Harvard University Press , Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bonner J.T. (2009) The Social Amoebae - The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds . Princeton University Press , Princeton & Oxford
Bonner J.T. (2013) Randomness in Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Box J.F. (1978) R.A. Fisher - The Life of a Scientist. John Wiley & Sons, New York
Bragg M. (2003) The Adventure of English - 500 AD to 2000 The Biography of a Language. Hodder & Stoughton, Great Britain
Browne J. (2008) Darwin's Origin of Species - A Biography . Manjul Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Bhopal, India
Carson R. (1967) Silent Spring. Fawcett World Library, New York
Clark R. (1968) The Life and Work of J.B.S.Haldane. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Cobb, M (2020) Smell - A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. UK.
Costa J.T. (2006) The Other Insect Societies . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Crick F. (1966) Of Molecules and Men. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
Crick F. (1981) Life Itself -Its Origin and Nature. Simon and Schuster, New York
Crick F. (1988) What Mad Pursuit - A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. Basic Books, Inc., New York
Cronin H. (1991) The Ant and the Peacock - Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Daly M. and Wilson M. (1998) The Truth About Cinderella - A Darwinian View of Parental Love. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Darnell J. (2011) RNA: Life's Indispensable Molecule. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
Darwin C. (1839) The Voyage of the Beagle. The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
Darwin C. (1890) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London
Darwin C. (1964) On the Origin of Species. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Das B.Ed. (2016) Arting Science. IISc Press, Bangalore
Dawkins R. (1986) The Blind Watchmaker. Longman Scientific & Technical, England
Dawkins R. (1989) The Selfish Gene (New Edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York
Dawkins R. (2004) The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Weidenfeld & Nicolson , London
Dawkins R. (2013) An Appetite for Wonder - The Making of a Scientist . Bantham Books , Great Britain
Dawkins R. (2015) Brief Candle in the Dark. HarperCollins Publishers, New York
Dawkins R. (2021) Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution. Apollo, UK.
Day R.A. (1989) How to Write, Publish a Scientific Paper (Third Edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Dennett D.C. (2013) Intuition Pumps and Other Tools For Thinking. W.W. Norton & Company , New York, London
Diamond J.M. (1991) The Rise And Fall of The Third Chimpanzee. Vintage Books, London
Diamond J.M. (1998) Guns, germs, and steel - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years . Vintage, London
Dugatkin L.A. (2006) The Altruism Equation - Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness . Princeton University Press , Princeton and Oxford
Durant W. (1953) The Story of Philosophy - The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers. Pocket Books , New York
Dyson F.J. (1985) Origins of Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Estes, James A. (2006) Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature. University of California Press.
Eastwood J. (1994) Oxford Guide to English Grammar. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Ehrlich P.R. and Ehrlich A.H. (1981) Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species. Ballantine Books, New York
Ehrlich P.R. and Ehrlich A.H. (2008) The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment. Island Press, New York
Emlen D.J. (2014) Animal Weapons - The Evolution of Battle . Picador, New York
Evans H.E. (1968) Life on a Little-known Planet. E.P.Dutton & Co., Inc, New York
Evans H.E. (1985) Wasp Farm. Cornell University Press., Ithaca
Fabre J.H. (1993) Insect Behaviour. Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi
Feynman R.P. (1985) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Adventures of a Curious Character. Bantam Books, New York
Feynman R.P. (1989) "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" - Further Adventures of a Curious Character. Bantam Books, New York
Feynman R.P. (1999) The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman. Basic Books, New York
Fossey D. (1983) Gorillas In the Mist. Houghton Mifflin Company , Houston, New York
Fowler H.W. (1926) A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press , Oxford, New York
Fowler H.W. and Fowler F.G. (1931) The King's English . Oxford University Press , Oxford, New York
Frazzetto G. (2013) How We Feel - What Neuroscience Can - and Can't Tell us about Our Emotions. Doubleday, London
Frisch K.v. (1971) Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
Gaarder J. (1994) Sophie's World - A Novel about the History of Philosophy (Translated by Paulette Møller). Berkeley Books , New York
Gadagkar R. (1997) Survival Strategies - Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies. Harvard University Press and Universities Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Hyderabad, India
Gadagkar R. (2001) The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata - Toward Understanding the Evolution of Eusociality. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, xiii +368pp.
Garg A. and Garg S. (2003) A Word A Day . John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Goodall J. (1988) In The Shadow of Man (Revised Edition). Houghton Mifflin Company, Buston.
Gopnik A. (2016) The Gardener and the Carpenter: what the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship between Parents and Children . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Griffin D.R. (1994) Animal Minds. The University of Chicago Press., Chicago & London
Haldane J.B.S. (1985) On Being the Right Size: And Other Essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford (Ed.)
Hawking S. (1998) A Brief History of Time. Bantam, New York
Heinrich B. (1979) Bumblebee Economics. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Hoffmann P.M. (2012) Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos. Basic Books, New York.
Hrdy S.B. (1977) The Langurs of Abu - Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,USA.
Hrdy S.B. (1981) The Woman That Never Evolved. Harvard University Press., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Hrdy S.B. (1999) Mother Nature - Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species. Ballantine Books, New York
Hrdy S.B. (2009) Mothers and Others - The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hubbell S.P. (2001) The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (Monographs in Population Biology). Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Hunt J.H. (2007) The Evolution of Social Wasps - With a Foreword by Raghavendra Gadagkar. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Isaacson W. (2007) Einstein - His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York.
Ito J. and Howe J. (2016) Whiplash - How to Survive Our Faster Future. Grand Central Publishing, New York & Boston.
Jablonka E. and Lamb M.J. (2005) Evolution in Four Dimensions - Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joshi Y. (2003) Communicating in Style. TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute , Delhi.
Kandel E.R. (2006) In Search of Memory - The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. W.W. Norton & Company , New York, London.
Kehlmann D. (2007) Measuring the World. Quercus, London
Keller L. and Gordon E. (2009) The Lives of Ants. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York
Krebs J.R. and Davies N.B.E. (1997) Behavioural Ecology - An Evolutionary Approach (Fourth Edition). Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, London.
Kuhn T.S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second Edition). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Latour B. and Woolgar S. (1986) Laboratory Life - The Construction of Scientific Facts . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Lieberman J.A. (2015) Shrinks - The Untold Story of Psychiatry. Little, Brown and Company, New York
Lindauer M. (1967) Communication among Social Bees. Atheneum, New York
Lorenz K. (1952) King Solomon's Ring - New Light on Animal Ways . Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York
Malthus T. (1798) An Essay on the Principle of Population - An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London
Matthews P.H. (2003) Linguistics - A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
Martin P. and Bateson P. (1987) Measuring Behaviour - An Introductory Guide. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Martin R. (2013) How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction. Basic Books, New York
Maynard Smith J. (1986) The Problems of Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Maynard Smith J. (1993) The Theory of Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Mayr E. (1991) One Long Argument - Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Penguin Books, London
Medawar J. (1991) A Very Decided Preference : Life with Peter Medawar. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Medawar P.B. (1979) Advice to a Young Scientist . Harper & Row , New York
Medawar P.B. (1986) Memoir of a Thinking Radish. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Medawar P.B. and Medawar J.S. (1983) Aristotle to Zoos - A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Miller J.C. and van Loon B. (1982) Darwin For Beginners. Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd., London
Monod J. (1979) Chance and Necessity : An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology. William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., Glasgow
Moore R. (1965) The Coil of Life - The Story of the Great Discoveries in the Life Sciences . DELL Publishing Co., New York
Morange, M (2021) A History of Biology. Princeton University Press.
Morowitz H.J. (1979) The Wine of Life and Other Essays on Societies, Energy & Living Things . Bantam Books, Inc. New York
Mukherjee S. (2010) The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer . Scribner - A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York
Mukherjee S. (2016) The Gene - An Intimate History. Allen Lane (Penguin Group), London
Nasar S. (1998) A Beautiful Mind - The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash. Simon & Schuster, New York
Nesbit T. (2014) The Wives of Los Alamos. Bloomsbury USA, New York
Nesse R.M. and Williams G.C. (1996) Evolution and Healing - The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Phoenix, London
Nowak M.A. and Highfield R. (2011) SuperCooperators - Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed . Free Press , New York, London
Nuland S.B. (1995) How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. Vintage Books, New York
Oldroyd B.P. and Wongsiri S. (2006) Asian Honey Bees - Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,USA
Phillips K. (1994) Tracking the Vanishing Frogs : An Ecological Mystery. Penguin Books U.S.A. Inc., New York
Pinker S. (2011) The Better Angels of Our Nature - The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes . Viking Penguin , New York
Ridley M. (1985) The Problems of Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Russell B. (1953) The Impact of Science on Society . AMS Press, Inc., New York
Scerri E. (2007) The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance. Oxford University Press, Oxford, USA
Seeley T.D. (1985) Honeybee Ecology : A Study of Adaptation in Social Life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Seeley T.D. (1995) The Wisdom of the Hive : The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Shubin N. (2013) The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People. Pantheon Books, New York
Skloot R. (2010) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown Publishing Company, New York
Snow C.P. (1998) The Two Cultures. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Strunk W.Jr. and White E.B. (2000) The Elements of Style (With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing by E.B.White). Longman Publishers, New York
Suri G. and Bal H.S. (2007) A Certain Ambiguity = A Mathematical Novel. Princeton University Press , Princeton
Sykes B. (2004) Adam's Curse - A Future Without Men. Corgi Books , London
Thomas L. (1974) The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcher. Bantam Books, Inc., Toronto
Thorpe W.H. (1979) The Origins and Rise of Ethology : The Science of the Natural Behaviour of Animals. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., London and Praeger Publishers, New York
Truss L. (2004) Eats, Shoots & Leaves - The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation . Profile Books Ltd, London
Van Lawick H. (1976) SOLO : The Story of an African Wild Dog Puppy and her Pack. Fontana/Collins, Great Britain
Watson J.D. (1970) The Double Helix : A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Penguin Books Ltd., England
Weiner J. (1995) The Beak of the Finch. Vintage, London
Wendland C.R. (2010) A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Williams G.C. (1966) Adaptation and Natural Selection - A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Wilson D.S. (2007) Evolution For Everyone - How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives . Delta Trade Paperbacks , New York
Wilson E.O. (1990) Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social insects (Ed. O.Kinne). Ecology Institute, Nordbünte, Germany
Wilson E.O. (1994) Naturalist. Island Press/ Shearwater Books , Washington, D.C. and Covelo, California
Wilson E.O. (1996) In search of nature. Island Press, Washington
Wilson E.O. (1999) Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge . Vintage Books, New York
Wilson E.O. (2010) Anthill - A Novel . W.W.Norton & Company , New York
Wilson E.O. (2012) The Social Conquest of Earth . W.W.Norton & Company, New York
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Wilson E.O. (2014) The Meaning of Human Existence. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York
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Winston M.L. (1992) Killer Bees - The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Wrangham R. (2009) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Basic Books, New York
Zahavi A. and Zahavi A. (1997) The Handicap Principle - A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York
Ziegler A. (2011) Photograph 51 (Play). Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York
Zuk, Marlene (2022) Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters. W.W. Norton & Co.