Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.

See also Science.
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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Gene: An Intimate History
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
94 books — 87 voters
Blindsight by Peter WattsHyperion by Dan SimmonsShip of Fools by Richard Paul RussoLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyAlien by Alan Dean Foster
Space Horror
320 books — 285 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Books for Bird Lovers
523 books — 207 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
282 books — 61 voters

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaStiff by Mary RoachAstrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
86 books — 43 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,953 books — 1,188 voters


Richard Dawkins
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an incre ...more
Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Richard P. Feynman
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
Richard P. Feynman

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