Human Biology


The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
The Selfish Gene
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Gene: An Intimate History
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
The Naked Ape
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.
Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Victor Davis Hanson
...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom or morality, much less radical improvement in innate human nature.
Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

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