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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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
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
This Is Your Mind on Plants
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Gene: An Intimate History
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneSphere by Michael CrichtonThe Dragon Dreamer by J.S. BurkeMeg by Steve AltenDragon Lightning by J.S. Burke
Oceanic/marine science fiction
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl SaganGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best General Science Books
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Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottFrom Mountains to Medicine by Erica M. ElliottFrom Doctor to Healer by Erica M. Elliott M.D.Life Revisited by Laurent  GrenierA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
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Richard Dawkins
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an incre ...more
Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution

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