The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa…
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1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Bu… read more
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"Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size…"-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
2. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
3. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
By: Michael J. Benton
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million yea… read more
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4. The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
By: David Hone
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
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5. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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6. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
By: Walter Álvarez
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The story of one of the greatest adventures of twentieth-century science, told by the central figu… read more
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7. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
8. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
10. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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11. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
12. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
13. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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14. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
15. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
16. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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17. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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18. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more
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19. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more
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20. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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21. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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22. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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23. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Life of the Past)
By: Michael J. Everhart
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The bright midday sun glinted off the calm waters of the Inland Sea and silhouetted the long, sinuo… read more
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24. Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
By: Michael J. Benton
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A journey through the great mass extinction events that have shaped our Earth. This timely and orig… read more
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25. End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
By: Ross D.E. MacPhee
3.97
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gor… read more
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26. The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World
By: Michael J. Benton
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were—or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they di… read more
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27. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
28. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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29. How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science
By: David Hone
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs In just the past twe… read more
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30. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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31. Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
By: Dean R. Lomax
4.47
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to kno… read more
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