In 2015 Gaia Vince became the first woman to win the Royal Society’s science book of the year prize for her book Adventures in the Anthropocene. She spent two years on the road investigating how communities across the world are coping with climate change. Here, she shares the five best books on climate change and the Anthropocene – the geological epoch of man.

The evolutionary biologist tells us why it's impossible to clone a mammoth, and why we might want to. She guides us through five books that discuss biodiversity, extinction, and genetics.