Biology Reading List

Dawkins, Richard. 1976. The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins, Richard. 1986. The Blind Watchmaker.
Gould, Stephen J. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
de Duve, Christian.1995. Vital dust.
Bryson, Bill. 2003. A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Ridley, Matt. 1999. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters.
Noble, Denis. 1992. The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes.
Roberts, Alice. 2014. The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us.
Walker, Matthew. 2017. Why We Sleep.
Kahneman, Daniel. 2011. Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Al-Khalili, Jim. 2014. Life on the Edge.
Greenfield, Susan. 2016. A Day in the Life of the Brain.

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