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The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,574 ratings — published 2019
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,811 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,048 ratings — published 2010
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 58,521 ratings — published 2014
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,185 ratings — published 2013
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,614 ratings — published 1976
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 240,157 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,420 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,915 ratings — published 2016
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,079 ratings — published 1967
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,699 ratings — published 2022
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 18,300 ratings — published 1993
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,700 ratings — published 2018
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,211 ratings — published 1997
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,615 ratings — published 2025
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.57 — 14,361 ratings — published 2021
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,608 ratings — published 2023
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,532 ratings — published 2022
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,864 ratings — published 2015
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,008 ratings — published 2018
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,295 ratings — published 2018
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.11 — 27,557 ratings — published 2019
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,209 ratings — published 2008
Chios Energy Healing: Powerful New Techniques for Healing the Human Energy Field (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 1994
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,354 ratings — published 2001
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.41 — 859,200 ratings — published 2016
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 255,687 ratings — published 1985
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,235 ratings — published 2001
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,387 ratings — published 2022
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.86 — 212 ratings — published
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.90 — 691 ratings — published 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,226 ratings — published 2003
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,925 ratings — published 2020
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,961 ratings — published 2019
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,865 ratings — published 2017
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,898 ratings — published 2019
Gray's Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,952 ratings — published 1858
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,690 ratings — published 1999
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,113 ratings — published 1991
The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2007
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,425 ratings — published 1997
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,104 ratings — published 2018
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,714 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,593 ratings — published 2011
Neuroscience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 616 ratings — published 1996
The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight: Longevity Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,794 ratings — published 2018
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,018 ratings — published 2010
Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.50 — 718 ratings — published 2013
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,097 ratings — published 2013
Trail Guide to the Body: How to locate the body's muscles, bones and more (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.48 — 535 ratings — published 1997
“Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.”
― Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
― Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
“...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom or morality, much less radical improvement in innate human nature.”
― The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
― The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
