The Top 20 Books on Biology

  1. The Origin of Species
  2. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  3. In the Shadow of Man
  4. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
  5. Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
  6. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
  7. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
  8. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
  9. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
  10. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
  11. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  12. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
  13. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
  14. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
  15. Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
  16. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
  17. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
  18. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
  19. DNA: The Secret of Life
  20. The Descent of Man

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