The Queens-born paleontologist, who died in 2002, lived in Soho for many years. (Image by Kathy Chapman)

The American Scientist list of  “100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science” includes the following 20th-century volumes about evolutionary science:

• Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

• Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (1977)

• Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1994)

• Richard Goldschmidt, The Material Basis of Evolution (1940)

• Ronald Aylmer Fisher, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)

• George Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (1966)

• Howard Gruber, with Paul H. Barrett, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity (1974)