Biology

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A new history of life

Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink

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Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

Alice Dreger

New York Times Book Review "[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism...

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The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology

Michael C. Gerald

From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landma...

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Rust: The Longest War

Jonathan Waldman

It has been called the great destroyer and the evil. The Pentagon refers to it as the pervasive menace. It destroys cars...

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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man

Michael Tennesen

While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Ten...

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The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Pat Shipman

With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals are the closest known...

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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Jerry A Coyne

The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to...

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The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

Nessa Carey

Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth...

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Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

Niles Eldredge

All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species--interco...

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Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution

Eugene E. Harris

In 2001, scientists were finally able to determine the full human genome sequence, and with the discovery began a gen...

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The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics

David S. Moore

Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century, scientists and laypeople an...

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

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Extinction and evolution

Niles Eldredge ; introduction Carl Zimmer

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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

Andreas Wagner

“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature’s many innovations—s...

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Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects

Scott Richard Shaw

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth—and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentat...

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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

Steven Weinberg

A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven...