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The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
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The Origin of Species
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
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Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
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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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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
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Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
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Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
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3.93 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution
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The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
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Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
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A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
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Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth
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The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality
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The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
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3.90 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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4.10 avg rating — 13,463 ratings
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
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3.87 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
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Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
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Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,396 ratings
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth – The Greatest Scientific Find of the Century: An Extinct Prehistoric Creature
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4.09 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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3.92 avg rating — 5,155 ratings
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The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures
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3.86 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
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Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea – Evolutionary Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Mystery of Attraction
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant: Hooke, Halley, and the Birth of Science
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health
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Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory
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Is a River Alive?
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Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
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The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
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Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World – A Natural History of Climate and the Future of Life
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Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
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The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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4.12 avg rating — 986 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Mountain in the Sea
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Playground
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Euphoria
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Happiness
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Wild Dark Shore
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Measuring the World
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Endling
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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The Overstory
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The End of Everything
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Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
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