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The Selfish Gene The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 192,623 ratings — published 1976
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The Origin of Species The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 121,959 ratings — published 1859
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The Gene: An Intimate History The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 55,676 ratings — published 2016
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 28,013 ratings — published 1999
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 114,190 ratings — published 2010
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 803,911 ratings — published 2010
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,953 ratings — published 2015
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,255 ratings — published 1989
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The Epigenetics Revolution The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,438 ratings — published 2011
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 217,442 ratings — published 2014
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 41,726 ratings — published 1986
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The Double Helix The Double Helix (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 20,029 ratings — published 1968
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 56,126 ratings — published 2009
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
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avg rating 4.26 — 8,856 ratings — published 2013
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 88,845 ratings — published 2015
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,753 ratings — published 2014
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,996 ratings — published 1995
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,258,368 ratings — published 2011
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A Short History of Nearly Everything A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 422,155 ratings — published 2003
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,245 ratings — published 2003
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 35,425 ratings — published 2022
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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 13,068 ratings — published 2021
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,784 ratings — published 2019
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 31,649 ratings — published 2016
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,718 ratings — published 1944
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 29,639 ratings — published 2015
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 287,129 ratings — published 2015
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 79,250 ratings — published 2014
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The Machinery of Life The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 732 ratings — published 1992
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Biology Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,143 ratings — published 1987
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 897 ratings — published 1986
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,585 ratings — published 1982
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 246,048 ratings — published 1985
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,406 ratings — published 1974
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 28,800 ratings — published 2008
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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 609 ratings — published 2023
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,362 ratings — published 2009
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 26,359 ratings — published 2019
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,334 ratings — published 2018
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,735 ratings — published 2017
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,661 ratings — published 1996
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,482 ratings — published 2017
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,100 ratings — published 1994
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Principles of Neural Science Principles of Neural Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,410 ratings — published 1981
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,683 ratings — published 2006
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What Is Life? What Is Life? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 274 ratings — published 1995
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Why Evolution Is True Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 26,036 ratings — published 2008
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,572 ratings — published 1997
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A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 809 ratings — published 2007
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“Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg.”
Lincoln Taiz; Eduardo Zeiger, Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz

“Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of the artifice, plasticity, and technology that Wells and Loeb envisioned as the future of the human relationship to living matter as well as of the "catastrophic" situation that Georges Canghuilhem (following Kurt Goldstein) saw in life subjected to the milieu of the laboratory.”
Hannah Landecker, Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies

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