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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,777 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,269 ratings — published 1976
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,614 ratings — published 2017
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,017 ratings — published 2008
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,001 ratings — published 2016
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,169 ratings — published 2015
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,294 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 830,539 ratings — published 2010
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,533 ratings — published 2015
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,215 ratings — published 1987
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 4 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,738 ratings — published 1982
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,624 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,770 ratings — published 2010
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,302 ratings — published 2011
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,831 ratings — published 2020
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,035 ratings — published 2016
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,720 ratings — published 2018
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,400 ratings — published 1968
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,319 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,397 ratings — published 1962
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,052 ratings — published 2004
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,561 ratings — published 1986
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,431 ratings — published 2009
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,797 ratings — published 2002
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,792 ratings — published 1859
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.03 — 466 ratings — published 2011
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 993 ratings — published 2025
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,234 ratings — published 2023
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,335 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,044 ratings — published 2018
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,309 ratings — published 2002
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.58 — 14,292 ratings — published 2021
Principles of Population Genetics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 78 ratings — published 1997
The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 718 ratings — published 2016
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,680 ratings — published 2017
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,245 ratings — published 2019
The World of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 117 ratings — published 1986
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,833 ratings — published 2016
Exploring Personal Genomics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings — published 2013
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,992 ratings — published 2013
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,805 ratings — published 2005
Principles of Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 110 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,761 ratings — published 2003
Brock Biology of Microorganisms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 684 ratings — published 2011
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,856 ratings — published 2014
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,786 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,822 ratings — published 2016
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,898 ratings — published 2001
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,200 ratings — published 2012
Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biological-sciences)
avg rating 3.65 — 117 ratings — published 2011
“All species on earth are related to one another like cousins and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.”
― Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness
― Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness
“Life is undoubtedly born of biology, but if a lifeform strictly constructs all its perception living inside the ship-shape well of biology, despite having developed the brain capacity to be beyond it, then it is a disgusting mockery of life itself.”
― A Push in Perception
― A Push in Perception