Best Books On the Origins of Life
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by:
Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 2. 
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.18 avg rating — 5,766 ratings 3. 
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
by:
Gabrielle Walker
3.99 avg rating — 415 ratings 6. 
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,146 ratings 
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.08 avg rating — 5,698 ratings 12. 
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
by:
Bill Mesler
3.99 avg rating — 513 ratings 12. 
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
by:
Lynn Margulis
4.22 avg rating — 888 ratings 
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.25 avg rating — 3,636 ratings 17. 
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
by:
Stephen C. Meyer
4.32 avg rating — 1,757 ratings 17. 
From Molecule To Modern Human: The 4.4-Billion-Year Evolution of Homo sapiens
by:
Frank Dunne
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by:
Riley Black
4.02 avg rating — 530 ratings 
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The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere
by:
Eric Smith
4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life
by:
Robert Rosen
4.17 avg rating — 81 ratings 27. 
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
by:
Evan Thompson
4.21 avg rating — 225 ratings 28. 
The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
by:
Pier Luigi Luisi
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization As Strategies in Scientific Research
by:
William Bechtel
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 31. 
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches 4.13 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding 4.20 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?
by:
David W. Deamer
3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings 36.
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
by:
Peter D. Ward
4.10 avg rating — 1,059 ratings