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Explore 24 books like Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould — a handpicked selection united by Evolution, Life Sciences, Essays, and Nature.

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The Flamingo’s Smile Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould

The Flamingo’s Smile Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Tree Where Man Was Born — Peter Matthiessen

The Tree Where Man Was Born

Peter Matthiessen

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Language of the Genes Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future — Steve Jones

The Language of the Genes Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

Principles of Geology — Charles Lyell

Principles of Geology

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 — Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

First Life A Journey Back in Time with Matt Kaplan — Matt Kaplan

First Life A Journey Back in Time with Matt Kaplan

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

Under the Open Skies Finding Peace and Health in Nature — Markus Torgeby

Under the Open Skies Finding Peace and Health in Nature

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Little Book of Aliens — Adam Frank

The Little Book of Aliens

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World — Tyson Yunkaporta

Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Tyson Yunkaporta

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 — Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline — Ernst Mayr

What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

A Brief History of Intelligence Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains — Max Bennett

A Brief History of Intelligence Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

On Human Nature Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface — Edward O. Wilson

On Human Nature Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface — Edward O. Wilson

Edward O Wilson

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Deniable Darwin & Other Essays — David Berlinski

The Deniable Darwin & Other Essays

David Berlinski

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

On Quality An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings — Robert M. Pirsig

On Quality An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

Robert M. Pirsig

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Canon A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science — Natalie Angier

The Canon A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

Aliens The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life — Jim Al-Khalili

Aliens The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

This Will Change Everything Ideas That Will Shape the Future — John Brockman

This Will Change Everything Ideas That Will Shape the Future

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Darwin Awards Evolution in Action — Wendy Northcutt

The Darwin Awards Evolution in Action

Wendy Northcutt

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Triumph of Sociobiology — John Alcock

The Triumph of Sociobiology

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

It Was Snowing Butterflies — Charles Darwin

It Was Snowing Butterflies

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The Possibility of Life Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos — Jaime Green

The Possibility of Life Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

Life The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science — John Brockman

Life The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

Themes: Evolution • Life Sciences • Essays

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Evolution, Life Sciences, Essays — the same threads that run through Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould. Among the authors featured: Stephen Jay Gould, Peter Matthiessen, Steve Jones, Charles Lyell, and others.

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