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Lab Girl
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Origin of Species
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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In the Shadow of Man
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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 Double Helix
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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The Ghost Map
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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The Descent of Man
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Diversity of Life
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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Biology
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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The God Delusion
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Why Evolution Is True
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Voyage of the Beagle
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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The Mismeasure of Man
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Last Chance to See
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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How the Mind Works
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On Human Nature
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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A Planet of Viruses
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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
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The Future of Life
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love – Essays from Renowned Scientist Richard Dawkins on Evolution and the Examined Life
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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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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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
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The Social Conquest of Earth
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
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The Demon in the Freezer
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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