Advanced Writing on Natural Sciences and Technology

Bibliography for Human Genetic and Cultural Heritage and History

• Cavalli, Sforza, Luigi, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Pizza. The History and Geography of Human Genes. Abridged Paperback Edition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.
• Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi and Mark Seielstad. Genes, Peoples and Languages. New York: North Point Press, 2000.
• Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle, ed . JBrowne and MNeve. London: Penguin, 1989.
• Darwin, Charles. The Darwin Reader, ed. Mark Ridley. New York: Norton, 1996. Second Edition.
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies New York: Norton, 1998.
• --------------. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York: Harper, 1993.
• Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man, revised edition. Introdd. Stephen Jay Gould. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
• -------------. Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Harmony, 1995.
• ------------------. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton, 1981.
• ------------------. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1992. (Reissue.)
• _-----------------. Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1980.
• ------------------. "The Geometer of Race," Discover (November 1994): 65-69.
• Hughes, A. Evolution and Human Kinship . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Jones, Martin. The Molecule Hunt Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA. New York: Arcade, 2003.
• Kelly, Saul. The Hunt for Zerzura. London: John Murray, 2002. A fascinating tale of intersections between archeaology and politics.
• Kunchithapadam, Krishna, "What, if anything, is a Mitochondrial Eve?", Errancy, May 1, 2000.
• Montgomery, Sy. Walking with Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Gildikas. New York: Mariner, 2004.
• Olson, Steve. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

  Review by Kim Allen, "Mapping Human History," Kim Allen's Online Presence, 2003.
  Review by Robin Dunbar, "Olson's Mapping Human History," Human Nature Review, 2: 336-337 (21 August 2002).

• Orr, H. Allen. "Talking Genes," a review-essay on Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors, New York Review of Books, 53:14 (2006):18-22 and online.
• Ruhlen, Merritt. The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue. New York: John Wiley, 1994.
• Stoneking, Mark. "DNA and recent human evolution," Evolutionary Anthropology, 2 (1993): 60-73.
• Trinkaus, Erik and Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind. New York: Knopf, 1993.
• Wade, Nicholas. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. NY:Penguin, 2006.
• Wallace, Jennifer. Digging the Dirt: The Archeaological Imagination. London: Duckworth, 2004.

  Blog commentary: Michael Shanks, "the archealogical imagination," all things archealogical, 8/19/2004, with a good bibliography and a reply in explanation and defense of the book by Wallace herself.
  Review by Cornelius Holtorf, "J. Wallace, Digging the Dirt", Rezension, 1/1, 25:11:2004.
  Review by Peter Popham, "All that rubble leads to trouble," The Independent (online edition), 12 October 2005.
  Review by Colin Renfrew, "What Lies Beneath," Times Literary Supplement, 8 April 2005:28. Blog commentary: Ellen Moody, a summary and brief critique, 16 July 2005