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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 1555 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,045 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 980 times as biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,252 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 744 times as biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,789 ratings — published 2016
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 628 times as biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,006 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 628 times as biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,388 ratings — published 2016
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,373 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,939 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,487 ratings — published 1999
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 513 times as biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,902 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 — 29,770 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 457 times as biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,868 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as biology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,370 ratings — published 2011
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 423 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,714 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 412 times as biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,065 ratings — published 2019
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,998 ratings — published 2004
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 378 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,174 ratings — published 2010
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,534 ratings — published 2015
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,127 ratings — published 2015
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as biology)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,418 ratings — published 2016
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as biology)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,641 ratings — published 2022
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,369 ratings — published 2008
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as biology)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,354 ratings — published 2022
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as biology)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,327 ratings — published 1968
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,807 ratings — published 2017
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,201 ratings — published 1987
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,454 ratings — published 1993
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 272 times as biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,701 ratings — published 1982
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,071 ratings — published 1944
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as biology)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,890 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 255 times as biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,539 ratings — published 2011
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,170 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 — 29,028 ratings — published 1991
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,303 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 — 60,410 ratings — published 2001
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as biology)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,842 ratings — published 2005
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,507 ratings — published 2003
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as biology)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,058 ratings — published 2012
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,578 ratings — published 1983
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,388 ratings — published 1989
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as biology)
avg rating 4.58 — 14,070 ratings — published 2021
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as biology)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,608 ratings — published 2021
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,062 ratings — published 1995
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,635 ratings — published 2018
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,441 ratings — published 2009
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 18,022 ratings — published 1993
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,484 ratings — published 1974
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,791 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 — 6,681 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 — 57,831 ratings — published 2014
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 186 times as biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,277 ratings — published 1992
“But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.”
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“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.”
― Moses and Monotheism
― Moses and Monotheism
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