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The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,311 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,034 ratings — published 1976
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,391 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,439 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,513 ratings — published 2011
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,576 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,263 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,500 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 — 7,691 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 — 42,286 ratings — published 2021
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,637 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 79 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,060 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,265 ratings — published 1968
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 61 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,659 ratings — published 1982
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 603,521 ratings — published 2013
Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 78,109 ratings — published 2006
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,266 ratings — published 2003
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,842 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 — 42,214 ratings — published 1986
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,373 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,065 ratings — published 2010
DNA: The Secret of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,844 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,985 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,303,982 ratings — published 2011
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,336 ratings — published 2022
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 — 1,652 ratings — published 2014
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,869 ratings — published 2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,770 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 — 29,577 ratings — published 2008
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,418 ratings — published 1993
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by (shelved 33 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,778 ratings — published 2020
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 — 2,794 ratings — published 2020
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,630 ratings — published 2002
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,314 ratings — published 2013
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 — 3,179 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 — 1,111 ratings — published 2015
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,493 ratings — published 2014
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,942 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 — 2,219 ratings — published 2006
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,616 ratings — published 2021
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,589 ratings — published 2014
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,065 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 — 123,775 ratings — published 1859
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,658 ratings — published 2018
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,748 ratings — published 2014
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.24 — 941 ratings — published 2021
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,826 ratings — published 2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,774 ratings — published 2005
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
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“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.”
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