Fall Semester Extra Credit Oppurtunities
mcourtney 09 Nov 2007 14:33
You may do any two of the alternatives for a maximum of 50 extra-credit points
Absolute due date for complete product: Friday, December 14, 2007 (do not ask for extensions)
Read one of the following books. Write a 5-paragraph essay that summarizes the book and relates it to a branch of biology.
- Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever by Hal Hellman
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen J. Gould
- Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs by James Lawrence Powell
- Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution by M. A. Edey and D. C. Johanson
- Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution by Lynn Margulis
- Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons by Christopher McGowan
- In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
- Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst Mayr
- The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson
- Life's Matrix : A Biography of Water by Philip Ball
- Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers