Biology

What is life? Biologists tackle this question by studying living organisms, their development, anatomy, physiology, molecular and cellular mechanisms, and evolution.
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The Vital Question
Book
Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

Nick Lane

W.W. Norton, 2015

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How the Mind Works
Book

Steven Pinker

W.W. Norton, 2009

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Book
Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Daniel C. Dennett

Simon & Schuster, 1996

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Too Much of a Good Thing
Book
How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us

Lee Goldman

Little, Brown US, 2015

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The Smart Neanderthal
Book
Bird Catching, Cave Art & the Cognitive Revolution

Clive Finlayson

Oxford UP, 2019

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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls
Book
Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future

David L. Hu

Princeton UP, 2018

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The Tangled Tree
Book
A Radical New History of Life

David Quammen

Simon & Schuster, 2018

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I Contain Multitudes
Book
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

Ecco, 2016

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Tracing Single-Cell Histories
Article
Origins of mutations in single cells during human brain development and aging are revealed

Je H. Lee

Science, 2018

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The Telomere Effect
Book
A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn et al.

Grand Central, 2017

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