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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You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Beasts of the Sea
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Gene: An Intimate History
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Books for Bird Lovers
540 books — 219 voters
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POLYANDRY BOOKS AND SHORT STORIES LIST
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Space Horror
338 books — 313 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,157 books — 1,683 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
437 books — 148 voters


Charles Darwin
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to p ...more
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

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