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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 190,469 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 120,928 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 54,704 ratings — published 2016
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 27,806 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 112,423 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 794,022 ratings — published 2010
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,828 ratings — published 2015
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,192 ratings — published 1989
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,363 ratings — published 2011
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 213,604 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 — 41,397 ratings — published 1986
The Double Helix (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 19,860 ratings — published 1968
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 55,756 ratings — published 2009
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
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avg rating 4.26 — 8,750 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 — 86,880 ratings — published 2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,694 ratings — published 2014
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,922 ratings — published 1995
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,964 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 416,427 ratings — published 2003
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,236 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 33,738 ratings — published 2022
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 12,543 ratings — published 2021
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,743 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 30,951 ratings — published 2016
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,588 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 28,998 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 282,529 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 78,173 ratings — published 2014
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 721 ratings — published 1992
Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,114 ratings — published 1987
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 893 ratings — published 1986
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,531 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 — 242,452 ratings — published 1985
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,365 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 — 28,396 ratings — published 2008
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 536 ratings — published 2023
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,313 ratings — published 2009
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 25,871 ratings — published 2019
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,218 ratings — published 2018
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,600 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 — 6,389 ratings — published 2017
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,092 ratings — published 1994
Principles of Neural Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,395 ratings — published 1981
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,668 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 — 638 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 — 25,866 ratings — published 2008
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,550 ratings — published 1997
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 808 ratings — published 2007
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 42,220 ratings — published 2004
“Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg.”
― Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
― Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
“Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of the artifice, plasticity, and technology that Wells and Loeb envisioned as the future of the human relationship to living matter as well as of the "catastrophic" situation that Georges Canghuilhem (following Kurt Goldstein) saw in life subjected to the milieu of the laboratory.”
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
