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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
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9.6 |
Based on his life's research, the author of the bestseller The Psychology of Consciousness provides a provocative look at the evolution of the mind. He explains that we are not rational but adaptive, and that it is Darwin, not Freud, who is the central s
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The Book of Man: The Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
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Current:
9.5 |
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Living With Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think
Dean H. Hamer, Peter Copeland
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Current:
9.5 |
How many of our faults are in our genetic stars, and how many in ourselves? Human geneticist Dean Hamer, whose research team found the popularly termed "gay gene," surveys what is currently known about the inheritance of human behavior and pers
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Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Richard Durbin
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9.5 |
Probablistic models are becoming increasingly important in analyzing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. For example, hidden Markov models are used for analyzing biological sequen
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Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
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9.4 |
In Figments of Reality, mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen's thesis (or schtick) is that human minds are produced by complicity between human brains and culture. In their earlier book
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Civilization and the Limpet
Martin J. Wells(Preface)
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Current:
9.3 |
Celebrated zoologist Martin Wells recorded his thoughts while on a Mediterranean sea voyage, and Civilization and the Limpet is the result. Written in charming, pithy prose, this collection of essays is eminently quotable, charmingly detailed, and
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
Carl Safina
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9.3 |
The oceans of the world rank foremost among humankind's last great frontiers, and their climatological and ecological workings remain mysterious to all but specialists. In this lively, well-written survey, marine scientist Carl Safina encourages readers
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The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology
Lori B. Andrews
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9.3 |
Yesterday's science fiction is today's litigation, and nobody knows that better than Lori B. Andrews, an attorney specializing in genetic and reproductive technology. Her book The Clone Age is a personal look at the sweeping changes that have affe
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Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression
Samuel H. Barondes
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9.2 |
It's official. Our tendencies to be happy or sad come in part from our genes. Samuel H. Barondes is a neurobiologist and psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, and his direct involvement with the subject lends friendly authority to
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Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality
William Wright
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9.2 |
William Wright takes on the question of nature versus nurture, examining the roles heredity and environment play in determining not only what we look like, but why some of us like coffee rather than tea or prefer cats to dogs. Wright's position is clearl
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Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby, Jeremy Nanby
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9.2 |
A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tri
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Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
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Current:
9.0 |
Despite the title, Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't really explain how new species are born. Scientists have been struggling with that thorny problem ever since its publication, and the recent revoluti
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The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
Jeremy Rifkin(Introduction)
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Current:
9.0 |
When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto the front pages. With
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The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis
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Current:
8.9 |
Having trouble deciphering your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the basics of geneti
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Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family
Lee M. Silver
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8.7 |
In this brilliant, provocative, and necessary book, Lee M. Silver takes a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago--indeed, in ways that go far bey
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Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe
Michael D. Lemonick
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Current:
8.7 |
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer at
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The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions
Freeman J. Dyson
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Current:
8.6 |
One fashionable school of thought holds that scientific revolutions are spurred primarily by shifts in the basic concepts that science understands the world with, and that those shifts are largely the outcome of struggles in the social and political real
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Guide to Marine Life of the Caribbean, Bahamas and Florida: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida
Marty Snyderman
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Current:
8.5 |
A layman's guide to identifying and understanding the marine life while scuba diving. more]
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Jacques Cousteau the Ocean World
Jacques Ives Cousteau, Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Current:
8.5 |
Virtually an encyclopedia of the undersea world, this magnificent and comprehensive volume covers all aspects of life in the oceans. It is illustrated throughout with over 385 photographs, plus maps and diagrams
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The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms With Nature on the Coral Reef
Osha Gray Davidson
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8.5 |
In this work of scientific journalism, Osha Gray Davidson surveys the condition of the world's great coral-reef systems, which offer habitat to countless diverse species of marine life. Many of those systems are now threatened by development--some, ironi
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The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities
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Current:
8.4 |
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Justice and the Human Genome Project
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8.4 |
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Genetics: Issues of Social Justice
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8.4 |
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Genomics: The Science and Technology Behind the Human Genome Project
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Current:
8.3 |
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Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its Implications
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 26
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Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality
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Current:
8.1 |
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett (Afterword)
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8.1 |
In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection. more]
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Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology
Joao Carlos Setubal
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8.0 |
Computational biology applies the power of computers to large, complex mathematical problems arising in molecular biology, especially in DNA sequencing. Setubal and Meidanis provide an overview of algorithms for computational biology as well as basic inf
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The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity
Boyce Thorne-Miller, Sylvia A. Earle (Foreword)
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Current:
8.0 |
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer at
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The genome project: the ethical issues of gene patenting: hearing before the the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee
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Current:
7.9 |
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Federal technology transfer and the Human Genome Project:
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Current:
7.7 |
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Human Genome Diversity Project: hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session,
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7.7 |
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The Human Blueprint: The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Script
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Current:
7.7 |
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Controlling Our Destinies: The Human Genome Project from Historical, Phiolosphical, Social, & Ethical Perspectives
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7.6 |
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Are Genes Us?: The Social Consequences of the New Genetics
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7.6 |
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The New Genetics: Challenges for Science, Faith, and Politics
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7.5 |
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Genetic Imaginations: Ethical, Legal & Social Issues in Human Genome Research
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7.5 |
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Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics
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7.5 |
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Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics As Guides
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7.4 |
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Mapping the Code: The Human Genome Project and the Choices of Modern Science
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7.4 |
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Genetics and Reductionism
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7.4 |
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The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome
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7.3 |
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Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project
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7.1 |
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The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care
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Current:
7.1 |
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The Human Genome Project: Deciphering the Blueprint of Heredity
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7.1 |
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The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Genetic Code of Life
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7.0 |
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Plain Talk About the Human Genome Project: A Tuskegee University Conference on Its Promise and Perils ... and Matters of Race
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7.0 |
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On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion
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6.9 |
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Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Project and the Future of Medicine
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Current:
6.8 |
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Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project
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6.7 |
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Human Genome Project
A large undertaking to define the entire genetic makeup of humans.