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"My favorite science books"
A Listmania! list by A. Volk (Canada)

1. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The list author says:
	"One of the greatest works in all of science"

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2. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins

The list author says:
	"The "sequel" to Darwin's masterpiece, even easier to read"

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3. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking

The list author says:
	"A short, but powerful, view of our universe"

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4. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

The list author says:
	"This is all about the greatest show on Earth"

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5. Life (original UK version) DVD ~ David Attenborough

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	"OK, not a book, but this is the visual accompaniement to Dawkin's book above"

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6. Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B Carroll

The list author says:
	"A really fascinating book on how organisms build themselves- a triumph of science and evolution"

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7. Life Ascending by Nick Lane

The list author says:
	"This book not only backs the theory of evolution to the fullest, it also sheds amazing understanding on some of evolution's greatest inventions, including life itself"

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8. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris

The list author says:
	"A powerful argument on how science can weigh in on the question of morals."

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9. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran

The list author says:
	"This is another great piece of evolutionary thinking that promotes some serious thinking"

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10. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

The list author says:
	"The BEST evolutionary book on parenting"

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11. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

The list author says:
	"Hrdy's follow up is more general and more theoretical, but still a great read"

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12. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson

The list author says:
	"This book does a great job of translating some finds in the science of parenting to plain English for actual parents. We need more of this!"

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13. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

The list author says:
	"I like just about all of Gladwell's work, so I'm putting this one in as a general advertistment for popular science writing."

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14. The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves by Enrico Coen

The list author says:
	"This was THE book that helped me understand how genes really work. Brilliant metaphor makes the complicated process of building a body understandable."

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15. Male Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences by Geary

The list author says:
	"A true compedium of male-female differences from an evolutionary viewpoint"

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16. The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind by Melvin Konner

The list author says:
	"Wow! This is a SERIOUS book looking at childhood from an evolutionary viewpoint. It's almost a (THE) textbook it's so detailed!"

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17. Family Relationships: An Evolutionary Perspective by Catherine A. Salmon

The list author says:
	"Another great book on evolution and the family"

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18. Homicide by Margo Wilson

The list author says:
	"A fantastic book on homicide and on evolutionary psychology in general"

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19. Obedience To Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram

The list author says:
	"This is easily one of the most important studies ever done on human nature- READ IT!"

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20. The Mountain People by Colin M. Turnbull

The list author says:
	"A fascinating, but chilling,, anthropological story"

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21. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare PhD

The list author says:
	"This is THE book on psychopathy, well worth reading"

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22. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse

The list author says:
	"An excellent evolutionary primer on medicine"

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23. Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer

The list author says:
	"I just love this book- parasites are an all-too present, powerful, and creepy force in biology!"

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24. The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture by Matt Ridley

The list author says:
	"Mind meets gene- a great overview of the subject."

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25. Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family by Jean L. Briggs

The list author says:
	"A fantastic, honest, ethnography of the Inuit as well as the author herself!"

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