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The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 281 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,222 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,109 ratings — published 1976
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,590 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,658 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,560 ratings — published 2011
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,680 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,392 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,686 ratings — published 2010
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,911 ratings — published 2021
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,731 ratings — published 2001
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,715 ratings — published 2017
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,136 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,386 ratings — published 1968
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 60 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,736 ratings — published 1982
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 608,794 ratings — published 2013
Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 78,623 ratings — published 2006
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,272 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,538 ratings — published 1986
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,878 ratings — published 2019
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,412 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,651 ratings — published 2010
DNA: The Secret of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,851 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,002 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,669 ratings — published 2011
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,844 ratings — published 2020
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,873 ratings — published 2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,107 ratings — published 2009
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,980 ratings — published 2008
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,470 ratings — published 1993
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,380 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,659 ratings — published 2014
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,844 ratings — published 2020
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,183 ratings — published 2006
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,642 ratings — published 2002
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,525 ratings — published 2014
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,558 ratings — published 2013
DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 755 ratings — published 2011
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,043 ratings — published 2004
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,645 ratings — published 2021
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,122 ratings — published 2015
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,229 ratings — published 2006
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,593 ratings — published 2014
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,068 ratings — published 2002
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 708 ratings — published 2006
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,715 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,703 ratings — published 1859
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,804 ratings — published 2005
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.24 — 960 ratings — published 2021
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,749 ratings — published 2014
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,669 ratings — published 2002
“A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”
― Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
― Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
