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

Wilson E.O. (2013) Letters to a Young Scientist . Liveright Publishing Corporation , New York, London

Wilson E.O. (2014) The Meaning of Human Existence. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York

Wilson E.O. (2016) Half-Earth - Our Planet's Fight for Life . W.W.Norton & Company Ltd., New York, London

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.