Science Books Published In/After 2012
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 2. 
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution 4.13 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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Johnjoe McFadden
4.11 avg rating — 3,657 ratings 5. 
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
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Nessa Carey
4.05 avg rating — 5,312 ratings 6. 
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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Christie Wilcox
4.11 avg rating — 1,537 ratings 7. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
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John Pickrell
4.15 avg rating — 361 ratings 
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Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil
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Susan Ewing
4.04 avg rating — 154 ratings 
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating — 7,098 ratings 
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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Nick Pyenson
3.79 avg rating — 3,806 ratings 21. 
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
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Nessa Carey
3.93 avg rating — 1,051 ratings 
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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Helen Scales
4.10 avg rating — 995 ratings 
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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Simon Winchester
4.14 avg rating — 6,353 ratings 26. 
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings 28. 
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
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Louisa Preston
3.68 avg rating — 185 ratings 30. 
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
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Paul Broks
3.84 avg rating — 288 ratings 32. 
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home
by:
Chris Woodford
3.74 avg rating — 188 ratings 
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Your Brain On Nature: The Science of Nature's Influence on Your Health, Happiness and Vitality
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Eva M. Selhub
3.96 avg rating — 422 ratings 34. 
The Spinning Magnet: The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It
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Alanna Mitchell
3.79 avg rating — 346 ratings 36. 
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
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Tony Juniper
4.21 avg rating — 411 ratings 
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
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Emily Anthes
3.73 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 41. 
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
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M.R. O'Connor
4.16 avg rating — 378 ratings 41. 
Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
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Kevin Begos
3.91 avg rating — 275 ratings 
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Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN
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Pauline Gagnon
3.86 avg rating — 76 ratings 44. 
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos 4.10 avg rating — 4,135 ratings
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City 4.33 avg rating — 8,788 ratings
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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Cordelia Fine
3.79 avg rating — 3,504 ratings 48. 
Overpowered: The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMF) and What You Can Do about It
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Martin Blank
4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings 48. 
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
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Damion Searls
3.73 avg rating — 968 ratings 50. 
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
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Annie Jacobsen
3.94 avg rating — 2,019 ratings 52. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings 53. 
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
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Stefano Mancuso
3.90 avg rating — 2,790 ratings 53. 
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
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Carlos Magdalena
4.03 avg rating — 1,383 ratings 55. 
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,430 ratings
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,024 ratings 56. 
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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Charles C. Mann
4.23 avg rating — 4,390 ratings 58. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 
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The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
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Wendy Williams
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 517 ratings 62. 
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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Robert Wright
4.02 avg rating — 25,752 ratings 64. 
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
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James Mahaffey
4.21 avg rating — 2,846 ratings 65. 
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative 3.97 avg rating — 14,015 ratings
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The Cell: Discovering the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future 3.61 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Fortress Plant: How to survive when everything wants to eat you
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Dale R. Walters
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings 75. 
The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene
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Oswald J Schmitz
3.57 avg rating — 51 ratings 76. 
Terra Preta: How the World's Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger
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Ute Scheub
3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings 77. 
Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
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Matt Wilkinson
3.80 avg rating — 110 ratings 78. 
The Nature of Nature: The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything
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Irving Dardik
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
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David W. Wolfe
4.06 avg rating — 170 ratings 81. 
The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 billion year story of Earth's climate
by:
Jan Zalasiewicz
4.10 avg rating — 111 ratings 82. 
25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment: What Many Environmentalists Believe and Why They Are Wrong
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Daniel B. Botkin
3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings 83. 
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
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Chris D. Thomas
3.90 avg rating — 619 ratings 84. 
Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
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David MacNeal
3.75 avg rating — 202 ratings 85. 
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart of Our World
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David Whitehouse
3.44 avg rating — 123 ratings 86. 
The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth's deep history
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Jan Zalasiewicz
3.80 avg rating — 245 ratings 
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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
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Paul B. Wignall
3.71 avg rating — 100 ratings 89. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,485 ratings 90. 
Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
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Bob Berman
3.99 avg rating — 415 ratings 91. 
Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms
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Ted Anton
2.90 avg rating — 31 ratings 92. 
The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet―and Ourselves
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Leslie Anthony
3.55 avg rating — 40 ratings 93. 
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
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Britt Wray
3.93 avg rating — 290 ratings 94. 
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
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Lucy Jones
4.13 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 95. 
The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
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Stephen Nicol
4.02 avg rating — 66 ratings 96. 
The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet 4.14 avg rating — 144 ratings
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals 3.97 avg rating — 544 ratings
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The Re-Origin of Species: a second chance for extinct animals
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Torill Kornfeldt
3.92 avg rating — 280 ratings