Celebrating Darwin

The University of Wisconsin is celebrating Darwin Day on Saturday, Feb. 7. Featured speakers include Sean Carroll, a UW-Madison professor of genetics and one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, Patricia McConnell, an authority on dogs and dog behavior, and Jeremy Jackson, an eminent scientist from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography who will speak on evolution and extinction in the oceans. Like evolution itself, Darwin Day is free and open to the public. They thoughtfully provided a helpful reading list, in case you can’t make it to the event.

Sean Carroll - Remarkable Creatures 

Sean Carroll - The Making of the Fittest

Sean Carroll - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Patricia McConnell - Play Together, Stay Together

Patricia McConnell - Tales of Two Species

Patricia McConnell - For the Love of a Dog
Ethne Barnes - Diseases and Human Evolution
Noel Boaz - Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick
Peter Bowler - Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
Janet Browne - Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography
Frederick Burkhard - Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters
Francis Collins - The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Jerry Coyne - Why Evolution is True
Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man
Richard Dawkins - The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Adrian Desmond - Darwin's Sacred Cause: How Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's View on Human Evolution
Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee
Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant - How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches
Bert Holdobler and E.O. Wilson - The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Society
David Quammen - The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
National Academy of Sciences - Science, Evolution, and Creationism
Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Elliot Sober - Evidence for Evoltuion: The Logic Behind the Science
E.O. Wilson, Michael Ruse, and Joseph Travis - Evolution: The First Four Billion Years