Harman's books have been translated into many languages including Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, Turkish, Croatian and Malayalam.
The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard University Press, 2004) tells the story of the English scientist
Cyril Dean Darlington, who tried to use biology to understand human history and culture, and whose ideas foreshadowed much of the influential field of
evolvability.
The Price of Altruism explores the evolutionary origins of
altruism, and the life of the polymath
George R. Price, who wrote an equation to help solve its apparent paradox. The book won the 2010
Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of Science and Technology, was long-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize, was a
New York Times Book of the Year, was nominated for the Pulitzer prize and has inspired theater plays and radio shows.
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) is an original rendering of major events in the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the evolution of consciousness and the birth of humankind.
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History (Basic Books, 2025) was called by the developmental biologist Sean B. Carroll "A Masterful tale of the long quest to understand one of the most wondrous and enigmatic phenomenon in the animal world", and "a new classic of natural history." Harman is the co-creator and editor, with
Michael Dietrich, of a trilogy of books on the growth and development of the life sciences:
Rebels (Yale, 2008),
Outsiders (Chicago, 2013), and
Dreamers (Chicago, 2018). He is co-editor with Dietrich and Mark Borrello of the
Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Harman is also a children's book writer. His young adult who-done-it "Darwin's Missing Notebook" (Lama Books) was released to critical acclaim in 2024, and was chosen to the "March of Books" of the Ministry of Education for 4-6 graders nationally. •
The Man Who Invented the Chromosome. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. •
Did Herzl Really Say That?! With Yanay Ofran. Director: Ido Bahat. Channel 8. 2006, 2007. •
Rebels, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology. With Michael Dietrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. •
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. New York: W.W.Norton/Bodley Head/Random House, 2010. •
Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. With Michael Dietrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013 •
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018 •
Dreamers, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences. With Michael Dietrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2018 •
Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. With Michael Dietrich and Mark Borrello. Springer. 2020 • ''Darwin's Missing Notebooks''. Lama Books. 2024 •
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History. Basic Books. 2025 == References ==