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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 248,306 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 827,298 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 124,461 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 118,250 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 125,193 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 81,968 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.36 avg rating — 237,951 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 73,192 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 197,549 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 60,484 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,325,501 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.27 avg rating — 9,137 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.31 avg rating — 55,312 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,399 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,796 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.06 avg rating — 92,982 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 61,219 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 57,150 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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3.78 avg rating — 4,096 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 — 9,312 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 — 6,173 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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4.17 avg rating — 18,091 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 26,401 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.37 avg rating — 34,283 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.04 avg rating — 14,325 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,666 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,964 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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4.09 avg rating — 35,170 ratings
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Life on Earth
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4.47 avg rating — 5,425 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 57,024 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.26 avg rating — 3,851 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.22 avg rating — 43,578 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,701 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.22 avg rating — 6,281 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 29,019 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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3.71 avg rating — 7,394 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.09 avg rating — 29,061 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 52,947 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 69,098 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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4.06 avg rating — 7,098 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 61,424 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 104,617 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,644 ratings
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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4.16 avg rating — 4,060 ratings
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The Descent of Man
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4.04 avg rating — 4,526 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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4.08 avg rating — 58,058 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,032 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 5,125 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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4.49 avg rating — 36,146 ratings
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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4.23 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 435,018 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,817 ratings
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
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4.20 avg rating — 4,471 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.70 avg rating — 13,468 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 — 42,450 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 — 6,357 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,764 ratings
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
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4.24 avg rating — 2,123 ratings
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
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3.68 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
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Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
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3.91 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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3.88 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
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On Aggression
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4.04 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.06 avg rating — 2,102 ratings
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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3.94 avg rating — 2,244 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 — 29,865 ratings
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,529 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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4.30 avg rating — 3,549 ratings
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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3.73 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
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4.09 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 31,143 ratings
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Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution – The Critically Acclaimed Investigation into the Controversial Evolution Debates
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3.93 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
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4.19 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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4.31 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
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3.93 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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4.07 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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4.15 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
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4.08 avg rating — 5,799 ratings
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Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
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3.87 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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4.13 avg rating — 6,984 ratings
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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4.11 avg rating — 51,785 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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Voyage of the Beagle
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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 — 1,656 ratings
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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3.96 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.83 avg rating — 20,357 ratings
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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4.18 avg rating — 2,468 ratings
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
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4.19 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,459 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.12 avg rating — 8,100 ratings
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
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3.94 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.50 avg rating — 188,857 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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4.14 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 33,577 ratings
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
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4.19 avg rating — 6,670 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.04 avg rating — 254,006 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,935 ratings
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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4.31 avg rating — 294,209 ratings
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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4.05 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
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3.80 avg rating — 1,951 ratings
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If it would make it easier for you all out there, I'd be happy to put in an additional criteria that says, if it's been shelved more times for religion than biology, it is disqualified.