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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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
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Great reads about Life Sciences
105 books — 47 voters
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
99 books — 62 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Mind-changing Nonfiction
97 books — 75 voters
DMT by Rick StrassmanThe Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy NarbyTao Te Ching by Lao TzuLife Revisited by Laurent  GrenierThe Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins
Curious Minds
176 books — 151 voters

Blindsight by Peter WattsHyperion by Dan SimmonsShip of Fools by Richard Paul RussoLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyDead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Space Horror
329 books — 293 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The Human Animal
139 books — 97 voters


If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. ...more
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

Nick Bostrom
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.
Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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