Popular Science Books That Make You Think

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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution 3.79 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
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Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?
Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? 3.72 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design 4.18 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong 4.05 avg rating — 738 ratings
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Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis 4.05 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off
Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off 4.31 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creator
Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creator
by: Hugh Ross
3.99 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Navigating Genesis: A Scientist's Journey through Genesis 1-11
Navigating Genesis: A Scientist's Journey through Genesis 1-11
by: Hugh Ross
4.50 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design 4.32 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution 4.14 avg rating — 950 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,056 ratings
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Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating — 155,624 ratings
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Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism 3.93 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief 3.87 avg rating — 13,399 ratings
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The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God
The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God
by: Hugh Ross
4.22 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism
Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism 4.09 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design 3.66 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God 4.12 avg rating — 13,495 ratings
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The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book 3.84 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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Growth Shock
Growth Shock it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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e: the Story of a Number
e: the Story of a Number
by: Eli Maor
3.93 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
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On Aggression
On Aggression 4.04 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World 3.98 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima 4.21 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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Miedo a la Física: Una guía para perplejos
Miedo a la Física: Una guía para perplejos 3.75 avg rating — 684 ratings
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King Solomon's Ring
King Solomon's Ring 4.13 avg rating — 4,448 ratings
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Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon 3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry 4.11 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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Too Many Pills
Too Many Pills 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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¿Qué es la teoría de la relatividad?
¿Qué es la teoría de la relatividad? 3.78 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
by: Nick Lane
4.14 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
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The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating — 42,954 ratings
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La Más Bella Historia del Hombre
La Más Bella Historia del Hombre 3.70 avg rating — 185 ratings
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In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents
In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents 4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography 4.30 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 383 ratings
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El cerebro de Broca. Reflexiones sobre el apasionante mundo de la ciencia
El cerebro de Broca. Reflexiones sobre el apasionante mundo de la ciencia 4.05 avg rating — 10,816 ratings
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Atlantis Rising
Atlantis Rising 3.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates
Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates 3.82 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code
Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code 3.93 avg rating — 306 ratings
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ADN: El Secreto de la Vida
ADN: El Secreto de la Vida 4.11 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
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Mystery monsters of the deep
Mystery monsters of the deep it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones
Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Dragon and the Disc: An Investigation into the Totally Fantastic
The Dragon and the Disc: An Investigation into the Totally Fantastic 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Great Orm of Loch Ness
The Great Orm of Loch Ness 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Great Power-Line Cover-Up: How the Utilities and the Government Are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazard Posed by Electromagnetic Fields
The Great Power-Line Cover-Up: How the Utilities and the Government Are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazard Posed by Electromagnetic Fields 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Worlds in Collision
Worlds in Collision 3.99 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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The Naked Ape
The Naked Ape 3.93 avg rating — 11,900 ratings
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The Rhythms Of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
The Rhythms Of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing 3.85 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor
Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor 3.90 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Aquatic Ape
The Aquatic Ape 3.87 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body 4.04 avg rating — 28,099 ratings
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The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery
The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery 2.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children 4.12 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Monsters of Loch Ness
The Monsters of Loch Ness 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems
The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems 4.05 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Supernature
Supernature 4.10 avg rating — 700 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World 3.81 avg rating — 5,279 ratings
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The Day of St. Anthony's Fire
The Day of St. Anthony's Fire 4.23 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth 4.13 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Who Built the Moon?
Who Built the Moon? 3.73 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by: Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,632 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus 3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by: Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,824 ratings
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health 4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by: Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,463 ratings
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Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future 3.98 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
by: Sam Kean
4.25 avg rating — 4,576 ratings
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization 3.98 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
by: Sam Kean
4.34 avg rating — 3,997 ratings
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals 3.97 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Waterside Ape: An Alternative Account of Human Evolution
The Waterside Ape: An Alternative Account of Human Evolution 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil 4.06 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins
Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins 4.13 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island 4.25 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine 4.10 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects
The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects 4.02 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Honey Prescription: The Amazing Power of Honey as Medicine
The Honey Prescription: The Amazing Power of Honey as Medicine 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind 4.08 avg rating — 231 ratings
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In Search of the Immortals: Discovering the World's Mummy Cultures
In Search of the Immortals: Discovering the World's Mummy Cultures 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs 3.92 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story 4.11 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Investigating the Unexplained: Compendium of Mysteries of the Natural World
Investigating the Unexplained: Compendium of Mysteries of the Natural World 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating
Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating 4.18 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life
Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life 3.93 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body 4.05 avg rating — 3,905 ratings
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Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs
Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs 3.68 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria 4.09 avg rating — 150 ratings
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We are not the first: Riddles of ancient science
We are not the first: Riddles of ancient science 3.68 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human 3.88 avg rating — 4,044 ratings
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U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy
U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy 4.09 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature 4.05 avg rating — 17,201 ratings
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Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins
Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins 4.37 avg rating — 71 ratings
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African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man 4.02 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future 4.02 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations 3.89 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World 3.67 avg rating — 66 ratings
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