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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly...

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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped...

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Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its pr...

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also have some 35% in common with daffodil...

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Neuroimmunity: A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains Healthy and Young

In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate fr...

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Origins of Existence: How Life Merged In the Universe

In Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long...

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The Body: A Very Short Introduction

The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, s...

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Earth Matters: How Soil Underlies Civilization

For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans. Entire...

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Sustainability

The word sustainability has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic developme...

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Extinction

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around...

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Life on a Young Planet

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with...

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A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

How did life begin?It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centur...

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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of t...

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The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge

Our planets elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take f...

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On the Scent: A Journey Through the Science of Smell

In humans, the perception of odours adds a fourth dimension to life, from the scent of flowers, the...

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