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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 1565 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,089 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 990 times as biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,696 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 747 times as biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,214 ratings — published 2016
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 634 times as biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,519 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 634 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,723 ratings — published 2016
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 542 times as biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,535 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 534 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,105 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,583 ratings — published 1999
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 516 times as biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,687 ratings — published 2020
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,976 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,638 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as biology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,441 ratings — published 2011
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 426 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,230 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 420 times as biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,063 ratings — published 2019
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,042 ratings — published 2004
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 379 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,373 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 377 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,572 ratings — published 2010
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,165 ratings — published 2015
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 343 times as biology)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,754 ratings — published 2016
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 341 times as biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,431 ratings — published 2008
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as biology)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,259 ratings — published 2022
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as biology)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,573 ratings — published 2022
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as biology)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,385 ratings — published 1968
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,214 ratings — published 1987
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 238,952 ratings — published 2017
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,468 ratings — published 1993
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 273 times as biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,734 ratings — published 1982
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,120 ratings — published 1944
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as biology)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,969 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 260 times as biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,560 ratings — published 2011
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,215 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,084 ratings — published 1991
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,912 ratings — published 2018
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 230 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,583 ratings — published 2001
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as biology)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,860 ratings — published 2005
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,205 ratings — published 2003
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as biology)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,179 ratings — published 2012
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as biology)
avg rating 4.58 — 14,260 ratings — published 2021
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,583 ratings — published 1983
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,413 ratings — published 1989
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as biology)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,906 ratings — published 2021
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,099 ratings — published 1995
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,677 ratings — published 2018
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,462 ratings — published 2009
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 18,170 ratings — published 1993
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,503 ratings — published 1974
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as biology)
avg rating 4.11 — 27,456 ratings — published 2019
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,804 ratings — published 2005
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,714 ratings — published 2017
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 58,265 ratings — published 2014
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
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