Required reading for science majors

Margaret runs a blog, My Growing Passion, which is a very popular botany blog from Australia. Yes, there are botany blogs. I learned about the Superb Lyrebird from her, for which I'm very grateful. Check that out. Also, she tagged me in one of these blog-memes. This one is about science books:

Imagine: YOU are asked to assign a half-dozen-or-so books as required reading for ALL science majors at a college as part of their 4-year degree; NOT technical or text books, but other works, old or new, touching upon the nature of science, philosophy, thought, or methodology in a way that a practicing scientist might gain from.

Post your list, and forward the meme to a half-dozen-or-so other science-oriented bloggers of your choosing.

How can I resist?

1. Robert Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation, 2006.
2. Sean B. Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, 2006.
3. Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene (in which he coined the term 'meme', by the way), 1976.
4. Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, 2005, revised edition.
5. Jared Diamond: Collapse, 2005.
6. Jared Diamond: Why Is Sex Fun? : The Evolution of Human Sexuality, 1997.
7. Steven Levitt: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, 2005.
8. Richard Feynmann: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), 1997.
9. Stephen Jay Gould: The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould, 2007.
10. Desmond Morris: Animal Contract, 1991.
11. Michael Shermer: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, 2007.
12. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries, 2007.

Also, they should read the Natural History magazine front to back 1989-2009.

I tag Evolutionary Novelties, Somatopsychic, Epiphenom, and The Dispersal of Darwin.

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Update 2/10/09: Wait, everyone else are only listing six books. Isn't a dozen four and twenty?