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Life Sciences

Life sciences are the branch of natural sciences concerned with living organisms, and include the subjects of anatomy, biochemistry, biology, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, zoology, and related subjects.

Life Sciences Books

The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Gene: An Intimate History
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
The Double Helix
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
The Epigenetics Revolution
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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Holt Biology by George B. JohnsonBiology by Peter H. RavenBiology by Peter H. RavenBiology by Holt, Rinehart, and WinstonUnderstanding Biology by Peter H. Raven
College Biology Textbooks
24 books — 2 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsStiff by Mary RoachThe 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 — 48 voters

Biology by Peter H. RavenHolt Biology by George B. JohnsonBiology by Peter H. RavenBiology by Holt, Rinehart, and WinstonUnderstanding Biology by Peter H. Raven
IFL Science! Life Science - Textbooks & Study Guides
24 books — 1 voter
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsWhy Buddhism Is True by Robert WrightMeditations by Marcus AureliusDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
Sam Harris' Recommended Reading
189 books — 67 voters

Quotes Tagged “Life Sciences”

“ Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg. ”
― Lincoln Taiz; Eduardo Zeiger, Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
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“ Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms, by making living matter conform to the shape, time, and technical forms of simpler experimental models. ”
― Hannah Landecker, Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
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