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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,306 ratings — published 1976
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,013 ratings — published 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,868 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 807,065 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,290 ratings — published 1859
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,741 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,976 ratings — published 2003
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 — 41,353 ratings — published 2021
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,769 ratings — published 2011
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,483 ratings — published 2015
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,922 ratings — published 2008
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,073 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 — 41,836 ratings — published 1986
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,490 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 99,974 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 — 28,685 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 — 17,009 ratings — published 1995
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 97,334 ratings — published 2023
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 — 5,100 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 — 5,991 ratings — published 2015
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,208 ratings — published 2009
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 5 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,599 ratings — published 1982
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.58 — 13,234 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 — 2,304 ratings — published 2021
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,245 ratings — published 1992
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,124 ratings — published 2017
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,915 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 — 26,539 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 — 40,334 ratings — published 2007
Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,151 ratings — published 1987
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 241,104 ratings — published 2003
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,618 ratings — published 2014
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,610 ratings — published 2016
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,761 ratings — published 1944
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
by (shelved 4 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 548,399 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 — 28,737 ratings — published 2004
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,376 ratings — published 2009
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,312 ratings — published 2022
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 — 50,417 ratings — published 2015
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,107 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 — 35,881 ratings — published 2022
Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,147 ratings — published 1979
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,821 ratings — published 2013
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,525 ratings — published 2001
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 227,908 ratings — published 2017
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,376 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Human Anatomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.51 — 3,801 ratings — published 1989
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,273 ratings — published 1989
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,100 ratings — published 2011
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as life-science)
avg rating 4.43 — 738 ratings — published 1992
“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
