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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 367,665 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 406,531 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.15 avg rating — 170,692 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.39 avg rating — 140,211 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 386,741 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110,969 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.27 avg rating — 191,801 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.28 avg rating — 70,198 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 52,837 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 69,632 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.18 avg rating — 41,047 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 47,885 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 26,906 ratings
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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.05 avg rating — 25,971 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.12 avg rating — 37,781 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.38 avg rating — 910,202 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.32 avg rating — 96,879 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 26,062 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.02 avg rating — 44,763 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 207,463 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.29 avg rating — 25,961 ratings
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King Solomon's Ring
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4.15 avg rating — 3,676 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 20,224 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.85 avg rating — 17,999 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.10 avg rating — 697,417 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 23,895 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.28 avg rating — 29,660 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 48,691 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 9,653 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,430 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 16,455 ratings
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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 164,220 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 21,396 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 — 38,400 ratings
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On Human Nature
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4.15 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 66,335 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 5,425 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 26,378 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.14 avg rating — 10,070 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 10,450 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 37,115 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.09 avg rating — 38,277 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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4.61 avg rating — 7,578 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.14 avg rating — 109,492 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.03 avg rating — 7,484 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
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4.25 avg rating — 37,389 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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4.29 avg rating — 16,659 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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3.53 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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4.11 avg rating — 9,045 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.05 avg rating — 8,682 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.32 avg rating — 35,068 ratings
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Life on Earth
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4.45 avg rating — 3,955 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 50,704 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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4.03 avg rating — 24,974 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 20,649 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 36,107 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.85 avg rating — 15,296 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 — 23,264 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.03 avg rating — 15,799 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.10 avg rating — 35,657 ratings
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Theory of People: Understanding Behaviors, Business, Economics, Feelings, and the Mind
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4.12 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 33,848 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.42 avg rating — 19,699 ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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4.26 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.37 avg rating — 19,995 ratings
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Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
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3.82 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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4.11 avg rating — 23,281 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.13 avg rating — 3,793 ratings
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
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4.28 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 172,318 ratings
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
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4.15 avg rating — 3,907 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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4.16 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 29,872 ratings
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The Descent of Man
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4.05 avg rating — 4,113 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.14 avg rating — 6,367 ratings
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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4.28 avg rating — 10,078 ratings
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Gorillas in the Mist
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4.15 avg rating — 20,231 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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3.99 avg rating — 7,074 ratings
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On Growth and Form
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4.15 avg rating — 838 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,055 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 — 8,076 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.06 avg rating — 208,567 ratings
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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4.41 avg rating — 17,574 ratings
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
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4.03 avg rating — 2,400 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.12 avg rating — 2,291 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.28 avg rating — 8,116 ratings
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The Immense Journey
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4.32 avg rating — 2,345 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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3.88 avg rating — 6,838 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 45,661 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 8,090 ratings
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 822 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.09 avg rating — 95,445 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 19,688 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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3.71 avg rating — 6,505 ratings
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
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4.04 avg rating — 5,196 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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3.78 avg rating — 3,794 ratings
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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
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3.89 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Genesis and the Big Bang Theory: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible
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4.09 avg rating — 528 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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4.12 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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4.08 avg rating — 31,277 ratings
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