Can you suggest a good book for a bright 14 year old interested in evolution?

I would possibly check out some Carl Sagen books.

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Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything

Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth.

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For real, there is a book called “Evolution for Everyone.”. I’m not at home, so I don’t remember the author, but he’s a professor in New England.

This book more than confirmed for me not only everything I had known, but offered real insights into how to think about every animal or plant you see in an evolutionist manner.

Like I said, I’m not home right Noe, but if you send me a message, I’ll track down the exact book. It was fantastic, popular science press, and probably was published about threw years ago.

Second vote for Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth.

@Lightlyseared How is it differerent than the Blind Watchmaker?

I agree, Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins.

Graphic adaptation of Darwin’s Origin of Species.

Here’s one of the best popular science books on evolution I’ve read:

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Inner-Fish-Journey-3-5-Billion-Year/dp/0307277453/

Neil Shubin has a unique gift of writing with exceptional clarity about difficult topics.

For discussions with his creationist teacher I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Darwins-God-Scientists-Evolution/dp/0061233501/

It explains how the teacher can remain a Christian and also accept the science of evolution. It’s a remarkable book. Teachers in public schools should not be creationists.

You might be able to download or purchase some of the shows that PBS has done on evolution. There was a recent one called “What Darwin Didn’t Know” on Nova that was pretty interesting.

You could have some real fun with this…
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster/dp/0812976568

Thanks for the suggestions, everybody.

The Velvet Claw is a great read about carnivore evolution.

I would recommend “The Beak of the Finch” to anyone!

@PandoraBoxx That link for some reason didn’t work for me. Can you repost it? Or give me the author/title name?

@Rarebear The Greatest Show on Earth is Dawkins personal summary of the evidence for evolution. The Blind Watchmaker only looks at one part of the argument against evolution, that of intelligent design,. What it does not do is present the evidence that evolution is a fact (and there is a lot of evidence). The Greatest Show covers much more ground and provides a much better basis for responding to creationists arguments.

This is not to say that The Blind Watchmaker is not worth reading. Dawkins is a a very entertaining writer, but I would leave it till later.

A friend of mine just got a book on evolution the other day at the airport that sounds like it might be interesting for a 14 year old. I forget what the book was, or who the friend was….so I’m not much help, am I!

@Val123 Your friend is an idiot…

@Rarebear LOL! Well, obviously not all that memorable, anyways! LOL!