Evolution & Biology
The story of life on Earth — from the first cell to modern humans
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Sonia Shah
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Rob Knight
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
Charles Duhigg
The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Random House, 2016.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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Sam Kean
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Randall Munroe
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
Walter Isaacson
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Douglas Abrams
A Survival Guide for Trying Times. Celadon Books, 2021.
David A. Sinclair
Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To. Atria Books, 2019.
Timothy C. Winegard
A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Dutton, 2019.
Laura Lee
How the Weather Has Changed History. HarperCollins, 2006.
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Adam Rutherford
The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
Richard Dawkins
The Long Reach of the Gene. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Charles Duhigg
The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Random House, 2016.
Alan Jasanoff
How Brain, Body, And Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. Basic Books, 2018.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
Laura Lee
How the Weather Has Changed History. HarperCollins, 2006.
Carl Safina
What Animals Think and Feel. Harry Holt & Co, 2015.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal. Atria Paperback, 2016.
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The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Sonia Shah
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
Charles Duhigg
The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Random House, 2016.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Scott D. Sampson
The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Nick Lane
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Carl Safina
What Animals Think and Feel. Harry Holt & Co, 2015.
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