Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
I've never read The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Bonus book: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
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Blogging will continue to be sporadic for a while, sorry about that. But having dragged myself down to Washington D.C. last weekend to see the new movie Creation, I figured I should at least get a blog post out of it.
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Thanks Greg, I just purchased "Darwin's Armada" on Amazon. I like to have several books ahead of me and this helped.
Just ordered this one, thanks for the prompt.
Here are a couple by an author I have met, attended a seminar he gave:
The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger
and his earlier:
Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils