Biology

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

See also Science.
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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The Selfish Gene
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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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
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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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

Jerry A. Coyne
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.
Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

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