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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,758 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 123,612 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,188 ratings — published 2016
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,367 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,842 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,160 ratings — published 2010
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,079 ratings — published 2015
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,344 ratings — published 1989
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,507 ratings — published 2011
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.49 — 223,267 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,178 ratings — published 1986
The Double Helix (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 20,248 ratings — published 1968
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 56,727 ratings — published 2009
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,026 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,253 ratings — published 2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,811 ratings — published 2014
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,122 ratings — published 1995
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,300,418 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,368 ratings — published 2003
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,266 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.46 — 37,769 ratings — published 2022
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.58 — 13,788 ratings — published 2021
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,838 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,925 ratings — published 2016
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,903 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,566 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,710 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,049 ratings — published 2014
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.44 — 750 ratings — published 1992
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,188 ratings — published 1987
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 902 ratings — published 1986
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,653 ratings — published 1982
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,987 ratings — published 1985
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,462 ratings — published 1974
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,528 ratings — published 2008
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 719 ratings — published 2023
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,178 ratings — published 2018
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,412 ratings — published 2009
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,036 ratings — published 2019
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,565 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,343 ratings — published 2017
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,731 ratings — published 1996
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,623 ratings — published 2017
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,117 ratings — published 1994
Principles of Neural Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,417 ratings — published 1981
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,698 ratings — published 2006
Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology And Philosophy Series)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.20 — 656 ratings — published 2005
What Is Life? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 276 ratings — published 1995
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,276 ratings — published 2008
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,603 ratings — published 1997
“Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg.”
― Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
― Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms, by making living matter conform to the shape, time, and technical forms of simpler experimental models.”
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
