BOTANY 260 Study Guide - David Quammen, The Selfish Gene, Jared Diamond
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You can select from six different books for the writing assignment; these are listed below. The goals of the writing assignment are to encourage you to do reading outside the regular class reading, Goals and to give you a chance to earn extra credit. Texts selected these books because they provide interesting supplements to the course material and they are well-written. All six books are on reserve at helen c. white library (college library) under zoology/botany 260. They are also available in local bookstores: dawkins, richard. The selfish gene oxford university press, 1981: diamond, jared. Schribner, new york: evans, howard ensign life on a little-known planet chicago university press, 1968, pollan, m. 2001. The botany of desire: a plant"s eye view of the world, random house (304 pp. : garrett, l. 1994. Assignment have to read the whole thing; the required sections are listed above. The format of your review must be: objective of the book (1 paragraph)
