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Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
by Masha Gessen
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In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and... ( read more)
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The Statue Within: An Autobiography
by Francois Jacob
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In a new preface to this special edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, Francois Jacob recalls the events that brought him to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1960's and taught him much about phage biology and the informal ways of American... ( read more)
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Mammals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by Smithsonian
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Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy... ( read more)
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Rosalind Franklin and DNA
by Anne Sayre
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Rosalind Franklin's research was, central to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of DNA's double-helix structure. Known only as the bossy, unfeminine "Rosy" in James Watson's The Double Helix, Franklin never received the credit she was due during her... ( read more)
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The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul
by Richard Morris
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Introduced in 1859, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated hot debate and controversy. Today nearly all reputable scientists agree: evolution did happen and natural selection was its main driving force. Yet a century and a half after Darwin, the... ( read more)
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Darwin's Origin of the Species: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by Janet Browne
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To book has changed our conception of ourselves more than Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. It caused a sensation on its publication in 1859, selling out its entire print run in one day, and went on to become an international best seller. The idea... ( read more)
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Spiders and Their Kin (Golden Guide)
by Herbert Walter Levi
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155) and index.... ( read more)
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This Is Not a Weasel
by Philip B. Mortenson
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.... ( read more)
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Quantum Evolution
by Johnjoe Mcfadden
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Marrying physics and biology, McFadden theorizes that evolution may not be random but directed, and that quantum mechanics endows living organisms with the ability to initiate specific actions, including new mutations. Illustrations.... ( read more)
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Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea
by Richard Ellis
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.... ( read more)
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Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future
by Gregory Stock
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.... ( read more)
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries... ( read more)
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The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life
by Franklin M Harold
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What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of... ( read more)
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane
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If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed, these tiny structures inside our cells are important beyond imagining. Without mitochondria, we would have no cell suicide, no sculpting of embryonic... ( read more)
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California Studies in Food and Culture #6: Eating Apes
by Dale Peterson
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Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented... ( read more)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide)
by Lorus Milne
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Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic... ( read more)
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Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
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New edition of Fossey's account of living with the gorillas of Gombe, the basis for the film starring Sigourney Weaver.... ( read more)
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I Have Landed
by Stephen Jay Gould
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Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould?s tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine?exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually... ( read more)
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The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field (Center Books in Natural History)
by Alfred Russ Wallace
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Long overshadowed by his contemporaries Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist and pioneer evolutionist who researched biological diversity through extensive exploration and travel. Independent of Darwin... ( read more)
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C Dennett
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how... ( read more)
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