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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 241,521 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 808,435 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 122,410 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,965 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 — 121,996 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,747 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 228,577 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 72,106 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 193,512 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 — 59,590 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,272,385 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.26 avg rating — 8,906 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.32 avg rating — 51,746 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,285 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,363 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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4.07 avg rating — 89,727 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,443 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 55,239 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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3.79 avg rating — 4,063 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 — 9,117 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 — 6,070 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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4.17 avg rating — 17,369 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 26,092 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 32,252 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 13,656 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,518 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,537 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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4.09 avg rating — 34,600 ratings
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Life on Earth
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4.46 avg rating — 5,161 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,238 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.25 avg rating — 3,762 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 40,912 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.22 avg rating — 6,249 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,759 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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3.71 avg rating — 7,315 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.09 avg rating — 28,722 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,897 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 68,072 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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4.06 avg rating — 6,972 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,532 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 100,252 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,369 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 — 4,002 ratings
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The Descent of Man
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4.04 avg rating — 4,480 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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4.08 avg rating — 56,157 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,152 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 5,017 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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4.50 avg rating — 34,696 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 424,659 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,549 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 — 4,422 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 12,349 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 — 41,879 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 — 6,111 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 — 8,683 ratings
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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3.89 avg rating — 2,950 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 — 28,991 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,101 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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4.30 avg rating — 3,425 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,909 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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3.92 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
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4.08 avg rating — 5,751 ratings
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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4.13 avg rating — 6,928 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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Voyage of the Beagle
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The Double Helix
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,334 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 74,781 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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Last Chance to See
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4.32 avg rating — 26,182 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,743 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 14,135 ratings
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 21,041 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
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4.11 avg rating — 10,127 ratings
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
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4.16 avg rating — 10,591 ratings
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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The Future of Life
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4.14 avg rating — 3,269 ratings
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide
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4.11 avg rating — 5,199 ratings
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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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3.76 avg rating — 5,250 ratings
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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4.20 avg rating — 17,076 ratings
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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Anthill
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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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.