Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.

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Biological War: A Scenario
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Beasts of the Sea
The Light Eaters
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy
This Is Your Mind on Plants
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Gene: An Intimate History
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Silicon Mind by Manikarnika LaguBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank Herbert
A Biopunk reading list
235 books — 123 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
443 books — 153 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonRosalind Franklin by Brenda MaddoxLab Girl by Hope JahrenIn the Shadow of Man by Jane GoodallNobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Female Scientists
178 books — 117 voters


Charles Darwin
“ Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved ...more ”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Mary Roach
“ We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. ”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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