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The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 56,897 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,152 ratings — published 1976
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,276 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,336 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,497 ratings — published 2011
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,525 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,205 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,280 ratings — published 2010
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,675 ratings — published 2001
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 41,994 ratings — published 2021
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,591 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 — 10,995 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,213 ratings — published 1968
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 60 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,641 ratings — published 1982
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 601,244 ratings — published 2013
Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 77,894 ratings — published 2006
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,263 ratings — published 2003
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,823 ratings — published 2019
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,097 ratings — published 1986
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,362 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,302 ratings — published 2010
DNA: The Secret of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,839 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,980 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,292,760 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,653 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,600 ratings — published 2009
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,393 ratings — published 1993
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,316 ratings — published 2022
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,864 ratings — published 2009
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,400 ratings — published 2008
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,751 ratings — published 2020
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,217 ratings — published 2013
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,627 ratings — published 2002
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,767 ratings — published 2020
DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 756 ratings — published 2011
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,176 ratings — published 2006
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,105 ratings — published 2015
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,474 ratings — published 2014
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,885 ratings — published 2004
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,600 ratings — published 2021
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,585 ratings — published 2014
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,064 ratings — published 2002
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 708 ratings — published 2006
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,300 ratings — published 1859
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,744 ratings — published 2014
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 933 ratings — published 2021
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,623 ratings — published 2018
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,804 ratings — published 2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,761 ratings — published 2005
“Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .”
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“If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.”
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