Let me start the process (and feel free to add a fourth "Honourable Mention" title to your list if you wish):
1. "The Primates of Madagascar" by Ian Tattersall (1982, Columbia University Press).
2. "Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species" by Robert MacArthur (1984, Princeton University Press).
3. "The Mammalian Radiations: An Analysis of Trends in Evolution, Adaptation, and Behavior", by John F. Eisenberg (1981, U. of Chicago Press).
4. Honourable Mention goes to "The Trouble with Science", by Robin I.M. Dunbar (1995, Harvard University Press).
1. Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac.
2. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
3. Masanobu Fukuoka's The One Straw's Revolution.
4. Honourable mention goes to: Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark.
The book that most influences my outlook is the Bible :)
Hello Ian,
I hope you get lots of replies. Here are mine.
1. C. Darwin - The Origin of Species (as undergrad)
2. D.S. Riggs - The Mathematical Approach to Physiological Problems ( while on staff at U.S. National Academy of Science).
3. R. Royall - Statistical Evidence. A Likelihood Paradigm.
(as faculty responsible for stats courses)
Honorable mention to
4. R.H. MacArthur - Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species. (as grad student).
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