Biomedical Science Uni Reading List
1. 
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 
3. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,556 ratings 
5. 
The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All
by:
Elinor Levy
3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings 7. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,805 ratings 
9. 
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing 4.11 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
11. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 
13. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 13. 
Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 15. 
The redundant male: Is sex irrelevant in the modern world?
by:
Jeremy Cherfas
3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings 
17. 
The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret Life of the Self 3.58 avg rating — 429 ratings
17. 
Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins
by:
Elaine Morgan
4.13 avg rating — 245 ratings 19. 
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,476 ratings 19. 
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
by:
Theo Colborn
4.11 avg rating — 861 ratings 
24. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,141 ratings 24. 
26. 
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.88 avg rating — 970 ratings 
28. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 
30. 
Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 32. 
The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future
by:
Steve Jones
3.88 avg rating — 504 ratings 32. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings 
34. 
Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,099 ratings 36. 
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
by:
Chris Stringer
3.93 avg rating — 310 ratings 
38. 
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.06 avg rating — 3,141 ratings 
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When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body 3.49 avg rating — 198 ratings
43. 
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.11 avg rating — 1,443 ratings 44. 
Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life
by:
Robert E. Kohler
3.88 avg rating — 58 ratings 
46. 
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,499 ratings 47. 
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 
51. 
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected
by:
Jan Bondeson
3.77 avg rating — 462 ratings 
