Most Read This Week In 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
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
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
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Organisch: Was es wirklich bedeutet, auf unseren Körper zu hören
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
The Seven Ages of Death
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Insectopolis: A Natural History
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
Breaking Through: My Life in Science
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Secrets of the Octopus
Endling
The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Ten Birds That Changed the World
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
Ferment: The Life-Changing Power of Microbes
Size: How It Explains the World
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
The Brilliant Abyss

Thomas Henry Huxley
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge ...more
Thomas Henry Huxley

Oliver Sacks
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ...more
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