19 January 2011
Posted by Callan Bentley
Amazon links to the five books mentioned:
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
(and we gave a shout out to the superb The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins, also)
(the video with the giraffe neck dissection)
Evolution: the Story of Life on Earth by Jay Hosler, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon
Free PDF preview of Chapter 3, “E is for Extinction”
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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