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Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!
Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!
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1 author picked The Song of the Cell as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I heard somewhere that we never left the ocean. We packed it into our cells and took it with us to land. I love that kind of imagery, thinking that lies at the intersection of science and romance, and that intersection is a place Mukherjee visits often.
Anyone could educate me about cellular biology, but few could give me a sense of quiet awe about my own cells. By the end of the book, I had a sense of great fortune, as if I’d been born the zookeeper of a place full of mysterious and clever animals and got to…
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