Science Journalist and Author
Ed Yong is a British American science journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, formerly a staff writer at The Atlantic. His bestselling books I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World explore the hidden worlds of microbes and animal senses, with the latter winning the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
by Ed Yong
Yong introduces the concept of the Umwelt -- each organism's unique sensory bubble -- to reveal how animals perceive the world through senses humans can barely imagine. From electric fields sensed by fish to the magnetic maps of sea turtles, the book redefines our understanding of perception and consciousness.
The books Ed Yong references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Godfrey-Smith explores octopus cognition to ask what consciousness looks like when it evolves along a completely different path. Minds can arise from radically different architectures.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins argues that the staggering complexity of life needs no designer. Natural selection, acting blindly and incrementally, is the only known force capable of producing the appearance of purpose.
by Robert Sapolsky
Sapolsky traces every human behaviour, from aggression to empathy, through biology, from the millisecond before an act back to evolutionary pressures millions of years ago.
Who Ed draws from, and who draws from Ed — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.