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The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Gene

By Siddhartha Mukherjee ,

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The Selfish Gene
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The Selfish Gene

By Richard Dawkins ,

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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The Singularity Is Near

By Ray Kurzweil ,

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Blank Slate

By Steven Pinker ,

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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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The Genetic Lottery

By Kathryn Paige Harden ,

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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh

By Carl Zimmer ,

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The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
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The Social Life of DNA

By Alondra Nelson ,

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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
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Time, Love, Memory

By Jonathan Weiner ,

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A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology
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A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology

By Jim Endersby ,

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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods

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A Cold Clear Day
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A Cold Clear Day

By Frank Murphy ,

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The Century of the Gene
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The Century of the Gene

By Evelyn Fox Keller ,

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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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The Anatomy of Violence

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Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior
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Meet Your Dog

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Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
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Science Fictions

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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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How to Clone a Mammoth

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Codex Seraphinianus
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Codex Seraphinianus

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Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to
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Lifespan

By David Sinclair ,

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The House Plant Expert
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The House Plant Expert

By D. G. Hessayon ,

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Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
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Life Reimagined

By Barbara Bradley Hagerty ,

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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
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Fatal Invention

By Dorothy Roberts ,

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Fair Warning
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Fair Warning

By Michael Connelly ,

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The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
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The Case against Perfection

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The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves
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The Art of Genes

By Enrico Coen ,

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How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference
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How to Argue with a Racist

By Adam Rutherford ,

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Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
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Natural Obsessions

By Natalie Angier ,

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Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion
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Schizophrenia and Genetics

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Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
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Disputed Inheritance

By Gregory Radick ,

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The Basics of Evolution
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The Basics of Evolution

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As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
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As Gods

By Matthew Cobb ,

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The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
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The Logic of Life

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The Vavilov Affair
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The Vavilov Affair

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The Science of Self-Empowerment
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The Science of Self-Empowerment

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