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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,387 ratings
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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4.14 avg rating — 115,900 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,117 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 — 10,114 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 — 14,065 ratings
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
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4.15 avg rating — 9,960 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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4.11 avg rating — 10,091 ratings
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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 — 11,136 ratings
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
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4.16 avg rating — 10,564 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 9,983 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
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3.90 avg rating — 8,688 ratings
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Art Forms in Nature
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4.13 avg rating — 7,678 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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4.03 avg rating — 12,082 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
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4.15 avg rating — 7,917 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,664 ratings
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On Intelligence
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4.11 avg rating — 6,968 ratings
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The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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4.10 avg rating — 6,743 ratings
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
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3.97 avg rating — 10,922 ratings
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The Ascent of Man
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4.21 avg rating — 6,338 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 — 34,467 ratings
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Mapping the Mind
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4.10 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
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The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,216 ratings
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
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4.15 avg rating — 5,478 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
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3.95 avg rating — 3,562 ratings
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The Ends of the World
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4.29 avg rating — 6,128 ratings
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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3.88 avg rating — 4,108 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,474 ratings
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Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
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3.89 avg rating — 4,492 ratings
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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4.11 avg rating — 5,527 ratings
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Letters to a Young Scientist
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3.90 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
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4.12 avg rating — 47,917 ratings
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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3.63 avg rating — 18,112 ratings
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Other Minds
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3.88 avg rating — 27,983 ratings
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The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles
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4.15 avg rating — 17,477 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 31,948 ratings
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The Brain: The Story of You
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4.25 avg rating — 22,847 ratings
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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4.20 avg rating — 17,014 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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4.25 avg rating — 13,776 ratings
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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4.08 avg rating — 11,990 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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3.93 avg rating — 12,571 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
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4.15 avg rating — 10,918 ratings
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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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3.98 avg rating — 7,950 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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3.92 avg rating — 22,409 ratings
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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4.10 avg rating — 13,116 ratings
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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3.74 avg rating — 5,097 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 — 5,242 ratings
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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
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Plagues and Peoples
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
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4.15 avg rating — 5,634 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
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Mind of the Raven
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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King Solomon's Ring
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The Sea Around Us
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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
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On Human Nature
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
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The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
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The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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Textbook of Medical Physiology
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
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Why We Run: A Natural History
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
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Anthill
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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The Immense Journey
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
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Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
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A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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Principles of Biochemistry
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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