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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.34 avg rating — 57,640 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 196,716 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 823,679 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,446 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 124,090 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,616 ratings
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 6,672 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 117,597 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.83 avg rating — 20,305 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
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4.12 avg rating — 2,652 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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4.02 avg rating — 12,504 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 5,533 ratings
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
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3.97 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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4.14 avg rating — 6,300 ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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4.08 avg rating — 3,505 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 42,338 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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4.01 avg rating — 11,090 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.26 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,976 ratings
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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4.20 avg rating — 17,411 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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4.11 avg rating — 2,847 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,598 ratings
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
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4.05 avg rating — 3,991 ratings
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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3.81 avg rating — 1,653 ratings
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes
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3.93 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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3.74 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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3.86 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance
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3.72 avg rating — 735 ratings
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The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
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3.77 avg rating — 6,057 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 293,687 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 29,700 ratings
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Next
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3.54 avg rating — 78,316 ratings
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
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4.28 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,710 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,440 ratings
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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4.12 avg rating — 9,685 ratings
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
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4.08 avg rating — 5,789 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,272 ratings
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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
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3.94 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
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3.89 avg rating — 46,689 ratings
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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4.06 avg rating — 4,268 ratings
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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
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4.06 avg rating — 3,179 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 9,056 ratings
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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 605,384 ratings
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
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3.94 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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4.07 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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3.94 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
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DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America
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3.54 avg rating — 756 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.28 avg rating — 42,490 ratings
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Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
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3.88 avg rating — 710 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,440 ratings
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The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
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3.86 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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3.75 avg rating — 79,017 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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4.12 avg rating — 10,181 ratings
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Adam's Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny
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3.92 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,682 ratings
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School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 125,501 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
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4.05 avg rating — 999 ratings
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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Genes, Peoples, and Languages
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3.86 avg rating — 806 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,894 ratings
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 234,765 ratings
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Prey
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3.79 avg rating — 188,433 ratings
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
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3.94 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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3.89 avg rating — 6,805 ratings
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 1,219,463 ratings
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Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam, #1)
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3.52 avg rating — 14,574 ratings
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Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 39,882 ratings
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Seize the Night (Moonlight Bay, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 30,117 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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3.93 avg rating — 12,809 ratings
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
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3.87 avg rating — 13,951 ratings
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The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
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Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 16,904 ratings
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
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3.95 avg rating — 5,225 ratings
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The Third Twin
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3.83 avg rating — 42,228 ratings
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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4.27 avg rating — 22,951 ratings
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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
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3.83 avg rating — 874 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.37 avg rating — 33,849 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.13 avg rating — 8,055 ratings
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
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3.97 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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Seveneves
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127,459 ratings
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
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4.14 avg rating — 2,022 ratings
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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3.99 avg rating — 4,707 ratings
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
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3.94 avg rating — 738 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 33,262 ratings
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Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
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3.79 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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4.01 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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3.88 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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Upgrade
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3.80 avg rating — 128,507 ratings
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
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4.12 avg rating — 27,211 ratings
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The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
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4.24 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology And Philosophy Series)
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4.20 avg rating — 658 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 21,007 ratings
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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4.09 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.28 avg rating — 16,265 ratings
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 1,090,829 ratings
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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4.14 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,313,718 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.79 avg rating — 3,353 ratings
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
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3.54 avg rating — 756 ratings
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