Human Biology Books
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,996 ratings — published 2019
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,581 ratings — published 2017
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 55,527 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 — 8,843 ratings — published 2013
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,003 ratings — published 2010
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 225,225 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,568 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,590 ratings — published 2016
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,081 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 4.29 — 15,061 ratings — published 2022
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,360 ratings — published 1976
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,752 ratings — published 2015
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 — 7,324 ratings — published 2018
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 178,505 ratings — published 2025
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.58 — 13,016 ratings — published 2021
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.33 — 95,103 ratings — published 2023
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,194 ratings — published 2022
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 4.13 — 18,839 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 — 5,077 ratings — published 2018
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,315 ratings — published 2019
Chios Energy Healing: Powerful New Techniques for Healing the Human Energy Field (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.35 — 26 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 4.05 — 3,225 ratings — published 2001
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.41 — 802,123 ratings — published 2016
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 — 2,206 ratings — published 2001
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,254 ratings — published 2022
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.90 — 199 ratings — published
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.91 — 655 ratings — published 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,539 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 — 9,793 ratings — published 2020
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,737 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 — 8,411 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 — 5,640 ratings — published 2019
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,003 ratings — published 1999
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 Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,159 ratings — published 1993
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,288 ratings — published 1997
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,602 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 4.03 — 12,025 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,254,062 ratings — published 2011
Neuroscience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 614 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 4.16 — 5,460 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 — 10,908 ratings — published 2010
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,141 ratings — published 1997
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,032 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 4.47 — 532 ratings — published 1997
How To Make a Human: Could you build a human body from scratch? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-biology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-biology)
avg rating 3.93 — 897 ratings — published 2017
Our Brains, Our Selves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 157 ratings — published
Endocrine System (Your Body: How It Works)
by (shelved 1 time as human-biology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2004
Derren Brown’s Bootcamp for Life (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as human-biology)
avg rating 4.36 — 121 ratings — published
“...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
“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
