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The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,533 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 193,739 ratings — published 1976
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 56,226 ratings — published 2016
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 28,131 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 115,161 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 809,658 ratings — published 2010
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,008 ratings — published 2015
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,290 ratings — published 1989
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,467 ratings — published 2011
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 219,742 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 41,906 ratings — published 1986
The Double Helix (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 20,141 ratings — published 1968
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 56,289 ratings — published 2009
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
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avg rating 4.27 — 8,919 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 89,398 ratings — published 2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,777 ratings — published 2014
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 17,040 ratings — published 1995
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,275,835 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 425,349 ratings — published 2003
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,256 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 36,294 ratings — published 2022
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 13,366 ratings — published 2021
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,805 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 32,060 ratings — published 2016
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,787 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 29,992 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 289,465 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 79,890 ratings — published 2014
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 740 ratings — published 1992
Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,159 ratings — published 1987
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 898 ratings — published 1986
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,612 ratings — published 1982
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 247,986 ratings — published 1985
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,434 ratings — published 1974
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 29,066 ratings — published 2008
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 645 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)
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avg rating 4.13 — 19,527 ratings — published 2018
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,381 ratings — published 2009
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 26,657 ratings — published 2019
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,441 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 32,384 ratings — published 2017
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,687 ratings — published 1996
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,536 ratings — published 2017
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,105 ratings — published 1994
Principles of Neural Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,410 ratings — published 1981
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,689 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)
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avg rating 4.19 — 650 ratings — published 2005
What Is Life? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 274 ratings — published 1995
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 26,111 ratings — published 2008
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,585 ratings — published 1997
“Our primary emphasis isn’t on physics and chemistry; it’s on the sciences of life.”
“Is that a matter of principle?”
“Not entirely. It’s also a matter of convenience and economic necessity. We don’t have the money for large-scale research in physics and chemistry, and we don’t really have any practical need for that kind of research—no heavy industries to be made more competitive, no armaments to be made more diabolical, not the faintest desire to land on the backside of the moon. Only the modest ambition to live as fully human beings in harmony with the rest of life on this island at this latitude on this planet. We can take the results of your researches in physics and chemistry and apply them, if we want to or can afford it, to our own purposes. Meanwhile we’ll concentrate on the research which promises to do us the greatest good—in the sciences of life and mind.”
― Island
“Is that a matter of principle?”
“Not entirely. It’s also a matter of convenience and economic necessity. We don’t have the money for large-scale research in physics and chemistry, and we don’t really have any practical need for that kind of research—no heavy industries to be made more competitive, no armaments to be made more diabolical, not the faintest desire to land on the backside of the moon. Only the modest ambition to live as fully human beings in harmony with the rest of life on this island at this latitude on this planet. We can take the results of your researches in physics and chemistry and apply them, if we want to or can afford it, to our own purposes. Meanwhile we’ll concentrate on the research which promises to do us the greatest good—in the sciences of life and mind.”
― Island
“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
