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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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The Genius of Birds
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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Biology
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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The Future of Life
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
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The Female Brain
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The Mind's Eye
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
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The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
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The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
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Polio: An American Story
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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The Peregrine
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Freedom Evolves
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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Complexity: A Guided Tour
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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