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Biology Books
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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 1478 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,494 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 940 times as biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,934 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as biology)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,716 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 609 times as biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,959 ratings — published 2016
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 596 times as biology)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,476 ratings — published 2017
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 522 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,758 ratings — published 2009
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,404 ratings — published 1986
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,807 ratings — published 1999
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 497 times as biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,400 ratings — published 2008
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 486 times as biology)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,806 ratings — published 2020
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 439 times as biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,446 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,225,331 ratings — published 2011
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 400 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,188 ratings — published 2014
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,554 ratings — published 2004
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,940 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 380 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 794,163 ratings — published 2010
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 363 times as biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,900 ratings — published 2015
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,869 ratings — published 2008
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,828 ratings — published 2015
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as biology)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,235 ratings — published 2016
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as biology)
avg rating 4.47 — 33,751 ratings — published 2022
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,265 ratings — published 1993
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as biology)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,861 ratings — published 1968
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,114 ratings — published 1987
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 219,977 ratings — published 2017
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as biology)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,565 ratings — published 2022
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 262 times as biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,532 ratings — published 1982
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,588 ratings — published 1944
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as biology)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,314 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 252 times as biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,364 ratings — published 2011
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,924 ratings — published 1995
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 231 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 58,970 ratings — published 2001
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,457 ratings — published 1991
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,675 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as biology)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,224 ratings — published 2018
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as biology)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,680 ratings — published 2005
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as biology)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,223 ratings — published 2012
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,192 ratings — published 1989
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as biology)
avg rating 4.28 — 40,331 ratings — published 2021
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,521 ratings — published 1983
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,220 ratings — published 2018
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,883 ratings — published 1995
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,313 ratings — published 2009
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as biology)
avg rating 4.59 — 12,550 ratings — published 2021
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,783 ratings — published 1993
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,391 ratings — published 2017
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,366 ratings — published 1974
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 54,591 ratings — published 2014
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 183 times as biology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,206 ratings — published 1992
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,877 ratings — published 2019
“Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking”
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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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