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Does /lit/ know any good biology related books? 2017-03-09 09:23:37 Post No. 9214338
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Does /lit/ know any good biology related books?
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I like to read about evolution, genetics, epigentics, plants, animals, viruses, bacteria, the immune system, the brain, ecology and so on and so on.
I generally avoid too technical books. Jargon is fine and kind of nice, for math I am too lazy + brainlet.
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You might be interested in Lewis Thomas. I've read a few essays from "The Medusa and the Snail" and I thought they were interesting.
They do not go into detail on specific topics. They are more like musings and anecdotes directed at laypeople.
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The Beak of the Finch
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Blood Music, by Greg Bear.
warning: "Childhoods' End"-style ending.
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Moby Dick. Sure, the whales are counted as fish, but it's pretty accurate in describing their anatomy.
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Try Robert Subtlesky.
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Machinery of Life by David Goodsell.
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Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
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CGP A-Level Biology Complete Revision and Practice
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John McPhee's books on geology and topography are first rate, as is Richard Fortey's book Earth. The quasi-pop tome for a (tendentious) view of the history of Evolutionary Theory and beyond is Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory--
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