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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,116 ratings — published 1976
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,816 ratings — published 2016
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,278 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,589 ratings — published 2015
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,419 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,912 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,410 ratings — published 2010
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,944 ratings — published 2020
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,880 ratings — published 2003
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,782 ratings — published 2008
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,634 ratings — published 2021
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,239 ratings — published 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,492 ratings — published 1999
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,383 ratings — published 1986
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,129 ratings — published 2019
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,028 ratings — published 1991
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,174 ratings — published 1995
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 287,378 ratings — published 2025
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 103,851 ratings — published 2023
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,374 ratings — published 2022
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,047 ratings — published 2017
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,236 ratings — published 2018
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,131 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,738 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,950 ratings — published 2009
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,077 ratings — published 1944
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,972 ratings — published 1962
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,706 ratings — published 1982
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,441 ratings — published 2009
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.58 — 14,085 ratings — published 2021
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,371 ratings — published 2021
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,215 ratings — published 2015
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,277 ratings — published 1992
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,419 ratings — published 2001
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,583 ratings — published 2015
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,279 ratings — published 2019
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,083 ratings — published 2007
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,202 ratings — published 1987
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.43 — 755 ratings — published 1992
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,619 ratings — published 2003
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,447 ratings — published 2016
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,253 ratings — published 2016
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,123 ratings — published 2015
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 557,002 ratings — published 1969
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,003 ratings — published 2004
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,243 ratings — published 2023
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,261 ratings — published 2024
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 51,682 ratings — published 2015
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,180 ratings — published 2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,680 ratings — published 2022
“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”
― Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale
― Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale
“In the 4th century BC, Plato argued that we are able to see because light emitted from the eye and that this light seizes objects with it's rays. This was the "extramission" theory of vision, and as bizarrely as it seems to us today, until the 1500s this was the widely held view in Europe of how the eye worked. To his credit Aristotle (384-322BC) was one of the first to reject the extramission theory of vision, arguing in favour of the "intromission" theory, whereby the eye receives light rays rather than projecting light into the world. Sadly, this eminently sensible theory from the ancient world was not embraced. Even Leonardo da Vinci in the 1480s first supported the extramission theory, but after dissecting the eye in the 1490s, he switched to the intromission theory. early observations by Islamic physicians, notably Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, who lived from 965 to 1040 AD and is known in the West as Alhazen, documented that the pupil dilates and contracts in response to different levels of light and that the eye is damaged by strong light. He used these observations to argue correctly that light enters the eye and that light is not emitted from the eye.”
― Life Time
― Life Time
