Great reads about Life Sciences
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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 β 27 ratings 5. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating β 42,021 ratings 
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,293 ratings 10. 
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
by:
Nessa Carey
4.05 avg rating β 5,312 ratings 11. 
Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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Robert Gaynes
4.54 avg rating β 37 ratings 
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating β 22,310 ratings 15. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating β 41,145 ratings 16. 
The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders
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Steve Parker
4.34 avg rating β 577 ratings 16. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,025 ratings 
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
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Tony Juniper
4.21 avg rating β 411 ratings 
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating β 7,614 ratings 
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
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Daniel Chamovitz
4.04 avg rating β 3,928 ratings 29. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating β 28,335 ratings 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,253 ratings 30. 
Watch out for Toxo!: The Secret Guide to Practical Science
by:
Jaroslav Flegr
4.07 avg rating β 30 ratings 30. 
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
by:
Christie Wilcox
4.11 avg rating β 1,537 ratings 
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by:
Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating β 2,896 ratings 
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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Larry Zuckerman
3.61 avg rating β 556 ratings 
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by:
Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating β 204 ratings 38. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating β 30,338 ratings 
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Investigating the Animal World: A General Zoology Laboratory Manual
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Dennis Holley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 44. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating β 1,785 ratings
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Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
by:
Lizzie Stark
4.07 avg rating β 182 ratings 49. 
Exercise Physiology: Theory and Application to Fitness and Performance
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Scott K. Powers
4.01 avg rating β 163 ratings 49. 
Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species
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Jackson Landers
3.89 avg rating β 152 ratings 49. 
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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Beth Shapiro
3.93 avg rating β 1,009 ratings 
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating β 7,931 ratings 
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Brain: The Complete Mind: How It Develops, How It Works, and How to Keep It Sharp 4.25 avg rating β 138 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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Thor Hanson
4.10 avg rating β 3,014 ratings 55. 
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament 4.20 avg rating β 2,095 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
by:
Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating β 26,525 ratings 55. 
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
by:
Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating β 4,009 ratings 
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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
by:
Rob Dunn
3.91 avg rating β 1,260 ratings 61. 
Those Wild Rabbits, Exploring Australia's Unique Rabbit Problem
by:
Bruce Munday
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings 
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by:
Claire Nouvian
4.32 avg rating β 1,233 ratings 66. 
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.54 avg rating β 69 ratings 66. 
Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
by:
David Quammen
4.16 avg rating β 1,164 ratings 
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
by:
Edward Struzik
4.03 avg rating β 65 ratings 69. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating β 10,688 ratings 69. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,025 ratings 73. 
The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
by:
Ian Wilmut
3.86 avg rating β 37 ratings 
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The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain
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Ian H. Robertson
3.78 avg rating β 814 ratings 74. 
Sex Matters: How male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it 4.10 avg rating β 697 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating β 27,646 ratings 79. 
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
by:
Charles Graeber
4.27 avg rating β 1,551 ratings 80. 
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
by:
Frans de Waal
4.19 avg rating β 4,317 ratings 
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The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health
by:
Daniel M. Davis
4.10 avg rating β 1,227 ratings 83. 
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
by:
Meredith Hooper
3.73 avg rating β 33 ratings 83. 
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
by:
Sonia Shah
3.90 avg rating β 1,490 ratings 85. 
The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients
by:
Sonia Shah
3.75 avg rating β 240 ratings 
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The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
by:
Nessa Carey
4.05 avg rating β 5,312 ratings 
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by:
Nick Lane
4.12 avg rating β 5,281 ratings 
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Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
by:
Paul Colinvaux
4.19 avg rating β 267 ratings 92. 
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
by:
Henry Gee
3.91 avg rating β 440 ratings 95. 
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World
by:
Chris Lavers
3.99 avg rating β 130 ratings 95. 
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: What Heredity Is, Is Not, and May Become
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating β 7,100 ratings 
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The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
by:
Kristine Barnett
4.09 avg rating β 7,768 ratings