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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,359 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124,842 ratings — published 1859
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,329 ratings — published 2016
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,640 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,846 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 830,980 ratings — published 2010
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,175 ratings — published 2015
The Double Helix (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 20,405 ratings — published 1968
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,423 ratings — published 1989
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,137 ratings — published 1944
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,565 ratings — published 2011
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 227,653 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 42,575 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 57,140 ratings — published 2009
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
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avg rating 4.27 — 9,168 ratings — published 2013
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,659 ratings — published 2017
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,647 ratings — published 2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,856 ratings — published 2014
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 17,217 ratings — published 1995
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,334,455 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 436,987 ratings — published 2003
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,274 ratings — published 2003
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 — 30,047 ratings — published 2008
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 39,403 ratings — published 2022
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 14,309 ratings — published 2021
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 27,499 ratings — published 2019
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,878 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 33,823 ratings — published 2016
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,722 ratings — published 2017
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 31,399 ratings — published 2015
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,659 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 82,368 ratings — published 2014
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 758 ratings — published 1992
Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,216 ratings — published 1987
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 915 ratings — published 1986
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,741 ratings — published 1982
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 255,194 ratings — published 1985
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,509 ratings — published 1974
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 781 ratings — published 2023
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)
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avg rating 4.12 — 20,928 ratings — published 2018
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,467 ratings — published 2009
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 43,014 ratings — published 2021
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,694 ratings — published 2018
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,780 ratings — published 1996
Other Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 29,852 ratings — published 2016
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 23,821 ratings — published 2015
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,130 ratings — published 1994
Principles of Neural Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,431 ratings — published 1981
The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,218 ratings — published
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,715 ratings — published 2006
“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms, by making living matter conform to the shape, time, and technical forms of simpler experimental models.”
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
“Our primary emphasis isn’t on physics and chemistry; it’s on the sciences of life.”
“Is that a matter of principle?”
“Not entirely. It’s also a matter of convenience and economic necessity. We don’t have the money for large-scale research in physics and chemistry, and we don’t really have any practical need for that kind of research—no heavy industries to be made more competitive, no armaments to be made more diabolical, not the faintest desire to land on the backside of the moon. Only the modest ambition to live as fully human beings in harmony with the rest of life on this island at this latitude on this planet. We can take the results of your researches in physics and chemistry and apply them, if we want to or can afford it, to our own purposes. Meanwhile we’ll concentrate on the research which promises to do us the greatest good—in the sciences of life and mind.”
― Island
“Is that a matter of principle?”
“Not entirely. It’s also a matter of convenience and economic necessity. We don’t have the money for large-scale research in physics and chemistry, and we don’t really have any practical need for that kind of research—no heavy industries to be made more competitive, no armaments to be made more diabolical, not the faintest desire to land on the backside of the moon. Only the modest ambition to live as fully human beings in harmony with the rest of life on this island at this latitude on this planet. We can take the results of your researches in physics and chemistry and apply them, if we want to or can afford it, to our own purposes. Meanwhile we’ll concentrate on the research which promises to do us the greatest good—in the sciences of life and mind.”
― Island