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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,547 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 802,644 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,844 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,007 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 — 121,286 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,140 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 225,242 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,798 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 192,369 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 — 59,340 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,254,197 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.27 avg rating — 8,844 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 — 50,684 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,251 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,230 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 — 88,648 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,191 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,761 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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3.79 avg rating — 4,052 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 — 9,075 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 — 6,032 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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4.17 avg rating — 17,160 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 26,025 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 31,582 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 13,495 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 — 56,149 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,437 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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4.09 avg rating — 34,446 ratings
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Life on Earth
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4.46 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,096 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.25 avg rating — 3,742 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 — 40,149 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.97 avg rating — 4,544 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.21 avg rating — 6,236 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,683 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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3.71 avg rating — 7,289 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,608 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,543 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 67,745 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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4.06 avg rating — 6,937 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,240 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 99,001 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,292 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 — 3,975 ratings
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The Descent of Man
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4.04 avg rating — 4,462 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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4.08 avg rating — 55,535 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,081 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,994 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 — 34,264 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 421,534 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,462 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 — 4,404 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,965 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 — 41,704 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 — 6,060 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 — 8,656 ratings
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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3.89 avg rating — 2,925 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 — 28,775 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,007 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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4.29 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,595 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 — 2,120 ratings
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
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4.08 avg rating — 5,738 ratings
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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4.13 avg rating — 6,913 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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4.18 avg rating — 2,446 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,315 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.13 avg rating — 7,706 ratings
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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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4.17 avg rating — 31,592 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 245,638 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,438 ratings
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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4.05 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 74,239 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 5,355 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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4.32 avg rating — 26,075 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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4.11 avg rating — 2,824 ratings
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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 — 6,724 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 — 14,012 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 — 20,479 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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4.39 avg rating — 8,854 ratings
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 3,099 ratings
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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 — 10,103 ratings
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
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4.15 avg rating — 10,533 ratings
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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4.03 avg rating — 4,204 ratings
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The Future of Life
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4.14 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
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4.23 avg rating — 1,795 ratings
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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 — 5,181 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 — 5,237 ratings
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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4.20 avg rating — 16,942 ratings
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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3.90 avg rating — 7,147 ratings
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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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3.82 avg rating — 11,110 ratings
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
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4.36 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
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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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4.35 avg rating — 55,568 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.