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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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Summaries

9 Book

Buzz
The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2018
8 Book

Becoming Human
A Theory of Ontogeny
Michael Tomasello
Belknap Press, 2019
9 Book

Beyond Biocentrism
Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
Robert Lanza
BenBella, 2016
8 Book

A World Beyond Physics
The Emergence and Evolution of Life
Stuart A. Kauffman
Oxford UP, 2019
9 Article

The World’s First Virus-Proof Cell, with Redesigned DNA, Is About to Meet the Test of Its Life
Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet. Impervious human cells may be next
Rowan Jacobsen
Scientific American, 2019
9 Book

Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster, 1996
9 Article

Humans Evolved to Exercise
Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy
Herman Pontzer
Scientific American, 2019
9 Book

Editing Humanity
The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
Kevin Davies
Pegasus Books, 2020
8 Article

Tiny Creatures, Part Plant and Part Animal, May Control the Fate of the Planet
Mixotrophs, tiny sea creatures that hunt like animals but grow like plants can change everything from fish populations to rates of global warming.
Aditee Mitra
Scientific American, 2018
8 Article

Synthetic Biology Is About to Disrupt Your Industry
François Candelon et al.
Boston Consulting Group, 2022