Charles Darwin - born 02.12.1809 | The Origin of Species - published 11.24.1859
Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library | 11/07/2009

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Recommended Resources

The following resources are available at the participating libraries: Brazoria County Library System : HAM-TMC Library : Harris County Public Library (HCL) : Houston Public Library : Montgomery County Memorial Library System : Fondren Library Rice University : University of Houston Library : University of Saint Thomas, Doherty Library. A library card is necessary to use these resources, please check the libraries website for requirements for obtaining a library card.

The location links with each resource connect to the online catalog of each library that has the resource.

This list is only a sample of each library's collection on Darwin and evolution. Explore each library's holding through its online catalog.

Asterisk (*) following title indicates book shown on Reading List of National Academy of Sciences' Science, Evolution and Creationism.

About Darwin

  • Title: Darwin Centenary: The Report of the Conference Held by the Botanical Society of the British Isles
  • Author(s):Wanstall, P.J.
  • Publisher:Botanical Society of the British Isles
  • Date:1961
  • Location: HAM-TMC Library
  • Title: Darwinian Heritage: Including Proceeding of the Charles Darwin Centenary Conference
  • Author(s):Kohn, David; Malcolm J. Kottler
  • Publisher:Princeton University Press
  • Date:1985
  • Location:

About Evolution

  • Title: Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behaviour
  • Author(s):Richards, Robert John
  • Publisher:University of Chicago Press
  • Date:1987
  • Location: University of Houston Libraries
  • Title: Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution Palaentonlogy, Phylogeny, Genetics and Development
  • Author(s):Ahlberg, Per Erik; Systemactics Association; NetLibrary, Inc.
  • Publisher:Taylor & Francis
  • Date:2001
  • Location: HAM-TMC Library
  • Title: Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902
  • Author(s):Artigas, Mariano; Glick, Thomas F.; Martinez, Rafael, A.
  • Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date:2006
  • Location: Fondren Library, Rice University | HAM-TMC Library

About Evolution for Children

By Darwin

  • Title: From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin
  • Author(s):Darwin, Charles; Wilson, Edward O.
  • Publisher:W.W. Norton & Co.
  • Date:2006
  • Location:

Genetics

Human Evolution

  • Title: Human Evolution: Trails from the Past*
  • Author(s):Cela-Conde, Camilo J; Francisco J. Ayala
  • Publisher:Oxford University Press
  • Date:2007
  • Location: University of Houston Libraries

Natural Science

  • Title: What Makes Biology Unique: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
  • Author(s):Mayr, Ernst; NetLibraray, Inc.
  • Publisher:Cambridge University Press
  • Date:2004
  • Location: HAM-TMC Library | University of Houston Libraries

Origins of Universe and Earth

Responses to Creationism

Mysteries

Novels

Science Fiction

  • Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Author(s):Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Publisher:Warner Home Video
  • Date:2001
  • Location: Houston Public Library

"Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue" -
Charles Darwin