Biology
How life works, from cells and DNA to animals, plants and our own bodies. Clear explanations of evolution and genetics, with no science background needed.
Biology Library
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence – and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Planet of Viruses
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
A Crack in Creation: A Nobel Prize Winner's Insight into the Future of Genetic Engineering
A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep
Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
On Being: A Scientist’s Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies and Companies
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Size: How It Explains the World
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society