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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
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The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
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Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution – The Critically Acclaimed Investigation into the Controversial Evolution Debates
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On Aggression
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes
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The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
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The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
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Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
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Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
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Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
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Naturalist
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Principles of Neural Science
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
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The Life of Birds
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Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
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Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
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The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
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Biochemistry
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
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Honeybee Democracy
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Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food Taming Our Primal Instincts
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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
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The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The God Delusion
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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How the Mind Works
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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