Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.

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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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Mary Roach
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Charles Darwin
...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intelle ...more
Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

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