What the excuse that you guys focus on remarks and ignore the whale thingie?
Here`s some evolutionary books to actually read for starters, no I haven`t read them all, but four for sure I do recognize.
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
Evolutionary Biology, by Douglas Futuyma, 1986, Sinauer, Sunderland,Mass
Evolution, by Mark Ridley, 1993, Blackwell Scientific, Boston
Principles of Population Genetics, by Hartl and Clark , 1989, Sinauer,Sunderland, Mass
Introduction to Population Genetics Theory, by Crow and Kimura, 1970, Burgess Publishing Company, Edina, Minnesota
Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, by Li and Graur, 1991, Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass
The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, by Richard Lewontin, 1974, Columbia University Press, New York
The Causes of Molecular Evolution, by John Gillespie, 1991, Oxford University Press, New York
Non-Neutral Evolution, edited by Brian Golding, 1994, Chapman and Hall, Boston
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, by Motoo Kimura, 1983, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Natural Selection in the Wild, by John Endler, 1986, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Macroevolutionary Dynamics, by Niles Eldredge, 1989, McGraw- Hill, New York
History of Life, by Richard Cowen, 1990, Blackwell Scientific, Boston
The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins, 1987, Norton, New York
Abusing Science, by Philip Kitcher, 1982, MIT, Cambridge, Mass
The Diversity of Life, by E. O. Wilson, 1992, Harvard Belknap, Cambridge, Mass.
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, 1859