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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,201 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,935 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,818 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,536 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,440 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,231 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,461 ratings — published 2014
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,046 ratings — published 2020
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,158 ratings — published 2009
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 191,785 ratings — published 2013
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,336,650 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,315 ratings — published 1980
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,229 ratings — published 2003
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,935 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,839 ratings — published 2014
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,413 ratings — published 1987
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,828 ratings — published 2017
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,066 ratings — published 2015
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,720 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,591 ratings — published 1986
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,253 ratings — published 1962
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,618 ratings — published 2022
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,893 ratings — published 2016
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,961 ratings — published 1949
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,762 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,386 ratings — published 2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,474 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 831,868 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,402 ratings — published 1999
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,094 ratings — published 2008
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,637 ratings — published 2006
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,518 ratings — published 2022
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,967 ratings — published 2017
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,457 ratings — published 2016
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,513 ratings — published 1962
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,074 ratings — published 2004
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,111 ratings — published 1991
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,458 ratings — published 1916
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,105 ratings — published 2022
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,489 ratings — published 2019
Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,479 ratings — published 1979
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,212 ratings — published 1995
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,468 ratings — published 2008
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,224 ratings — published 2010
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,999 ratings — published 2007
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,664 ratings — published 2001
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,575 ratings — published 2014
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,922 ratings — published 2016
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,326 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,520 ratings — published 1995
“The senses give both us and the animals access to the natural world, but we humans have superimposed a second world by internalizing a poem, thereby making the two worlds seem equally inescapable. Outside of the natural sciences, reason works within the second world, following paths that the imagination has cleared. But inside those sciences, nature itself shows the way,”
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“Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.”
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