Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, …
Want to Read $ 12.99If you liked the nature plot in Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Bu… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size…"-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
2. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
3. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
By: Nick Lane
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A renowned biochemist draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to construct the mosaic of life's a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Nick Lane's Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
4. This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
By: Kathleen McAuliffe
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kathleen McAuliffe's This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
5. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
By: Sean B. Carroll , None , None
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. E… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sean B. Carroll's Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
6. The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
By: Sean B. Carroll
3.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African sa… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sean B. Carroll's The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
7. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
By: Nick Lane
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Nick Lane's The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
8. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Riley Black's The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
9. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in David Reich's Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- audiobook
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- genetics
- anthropology
10. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Ruth Kassinger's Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
11. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
12. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
13. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Thomas Halliday's Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
14. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
Want to Read $ 14.49Similar categories in Andrew H. Knoll's A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
15. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Robin George Andrews's Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- nonfiction
- science nature
- nature
- audiobook
16. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in David Quammen's The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- nature
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- genetics
- audiobook
17. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- audiobook
- nature
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science nature
- genetics
- anthropology
18. The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
By: Eric R. Kandel
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorde… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Eric R. Kandel's The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
By: Euan Angus Ashley
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In The Genome Odyssey , Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the br… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Euan Angus Ashley's The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- audiobook
- biology
- nonfiction
- genetics
- science
20. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
Want to Read $ 21.99Similar categories in Philip Ball's How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- nature
- science
- biology
- nonfiction
- science nature
- genetics
- audiobook
"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
21. Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
By: Robert M. Hazen
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting biography of the most resonant— and most necessary—chemical element on Earth. Carb… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Robert M. Hazen's Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything book and Neil Shubin's Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
