
Good story over on the NMNH blog. Many good books listed. Here’s just a few highlights:
- Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, by Richard Fortey
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, by Stephen Jay Gould
- Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey
- Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip, by Kirk Johnson (Author and the Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History) and Ray Troll (Illustrator)
- My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and our Favorite Dinosaurs, by Brian Switek
- The Complete Dinosaur, by Michael K. Brett-Surman (Editor), Thomas R. Holtz (Editor), James O. Farlow (Editor), Bob Walters (Illustrator)
If you’ve got some time over the holidays (or the upcoming cold months), grab some good reading!
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