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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 192,632 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 121,963 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 55,682 ratings — published 2016
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 28,013 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 114,202 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 803,971 ratings — published 2010
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,953 ratings — published 2015
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,256 ratings — published 1989
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,438 ratings — published 2011
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 217,457 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 — 41,726 ratings — published 1986
The Double Helix (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 20,029 ratings — published 1968
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 56,128 ratings — published 2009
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
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avg rating 4.26 — 8,856 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 4.07 — 88,854 ratings — published 2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,753 ratings — published 2014
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,996 ratings — published 1995
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,258,494 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 422,184 ratings — published 2003
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,245 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 35,430 ratings — published 2022
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 13,071 ratings — published 2021
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,785 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 — 31,652 ratings — published 2016
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,718 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 29,640 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 287,143 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 79,255 ratings — published 2014
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 732 ratings — published 1992
Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,144 ratings — published 1987
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 897 ratings — published 1986
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,585 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 — 246,051 ratings — published 1985
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,407 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 — 28,801 ratings — published 2008
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 609 ratings — published 2023
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,362 ratings — published 2009
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 26,361 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 — 7,335 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,738 ratings — published 2017
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,661 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 — 6,482 ratings — published 2017
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,100 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 — 4,683 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 — 648 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 — 26,036 ratings — published 2008
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,572 ratings — published 1997
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 809 ratings — published 2007
“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
