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There are a lot of great popular science books out there, but these are my favorite to show how the quest for knowledge progresses - for good or bad.
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The Case of the Frozen Addicts
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The Best Bits of Physics
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects: The Evolution and transition of Insect Life Stages
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Who Banged the Big Bang!: Trans-Scientific Mysteries: Decoded, Simplified
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Prabha Karan (Goodreads Author)
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Neither Darwin Nor Genesis: A New Paradigm for Creation and Evolution
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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On the Origin of the Species: By Means of Natural Selection
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
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David Quammen (Goodreads Author)
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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Darwin and Theory of Evolution
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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The Diversity of Life
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Voyage of the Beagle
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The Tao of Physics
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
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Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
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On the Origin of Species
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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The Origin of Species
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
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The Power of Movement in Plants (Works 27)
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One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
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Nicolaus Copernicus (Leaders of the Scientific Revolution)
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Kristina Lyn Heitkamp (Goodreads Author)
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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Astronomia Instaurata, Libris VI Comprehense, Qui de Revolutionibus Orbium Ciekestuyn Ubscribuntur (1617) (Latin Edition)
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Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (Great Books of the Western World, #15)
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On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
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