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Book Recommendations for Biological Sciences in 2023

There are 83 biological sciences books recommended by the community in 2023.
Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides)
Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides)
Joseph T. Collins
4.5
Comments: 14
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The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms
The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms
Virginia Haze, Visit Amazon's Virginia Haze Pagesearch resultsLearn about Author CentralVirginia Haze
4.6
Comments: 12
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
4.6
Comments: 7
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
4.5
Comments: 6
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.0
Comments: 6
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts
4.5
Comments: 5
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
Paul Stamets, Weil M.D., Andrew
4.8
Comments: 3
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Steve Brusatte
4.6
Comments: 3
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.5
Comments: 3
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Edible Mushrooms: A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain and Europe
Edible Mushrooms: A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain and Europe
Geoff Dann
5.0
Comments: 3
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Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance (revised edition)
Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance (revised edition)
Stephen Herrero
4.5
Comments: 3
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The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms
The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms
Gary Lincoff
4.4
Comments: 3
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey West
4.3
Comments: 3
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Honeybee Democracy
Honeybee Democracy
Thomas D Seeley
4.7
Comments: 3
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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
4.0
Comments: 3
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Sex and the Origins of Death
Sex and the Origins of Death
William R. Clark
4.5
Comments: 2
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The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D. Ph.D.
4.6
Comments: 2
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Nathan H. Lents
4.5
Comments: 2
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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
William R. Catton
4.4
Comments: 2
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Carl Zimmer
4.6
Comments: 2
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe
4.7
Comments: 2
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Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, The Northwest
Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, The Northwest
Janice Schofield Eaton, Richard W Tyler
4.7
Comments: 2
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Paul Stamets
4.7
Comments: 2
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Peter D. Ward
4.4
Comments: 2
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What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science)
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science)
Addy Pross
4.1
Comments: 2
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
Geoffrey West
4.2
Comments: 1
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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Alanna Collen
4.6
Comments: 1
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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Bruce Bagemihl
4.2
Comments: 1
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
4.5
Comments: 1
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Paul Greenberg
4.5
Comments: 1
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T. rex and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library)
T. rex and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library)
Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer
4.6
Comments: 1
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Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Paul Matsudaira
4.4
Comments: 1
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Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology
Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology
Lee C. Drickamer, Carey Krajewski
4.3
Comments: 1
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Multiple Imputation and its Application
Multiple Imputation and its Application
Michael Kenward
5.0
Comments: 1
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The Machinery of Life
The Machinery of Life
David S. Goodsell
4.7
Comments: 1
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The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley
4.6
Comments: 1
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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins
4.6
Comments: 1
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Mark Essig
4.6
Comments: 1
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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
Ben Goldacre
4.2
Comments: 1
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Neanderthal Man
Neanderthal Man
Svante Pääbo, Dennis Holland
4.4
Comments: 1
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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
Robert Trivers
3.4
Comments: 1
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Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution
Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution
Mark Blumberg
3.5
Comments: 1
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Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (A Friends of the Land Book)
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (A Friends of the Land Book)
J Russell Smith
4.2
Comments: 1
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System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts (The MIT Press)
System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts (The MIT Press)
Vipul Periwal
3.6
Comments: 1
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Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
Roderick J. A. Little, Donald B. Rubin
4.5
Comments: 1
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The Naked Bonobo
The Naked Bonobo
Lynn Saxon
5.0
Comments: 1
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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
Nessa Carey
4.1
Comments: 1
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Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World
Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World
Howard Ensign Evans
5.0
Comments: 1
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Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith
4.6
Comments: 1
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Mushrooms Demystified
Mushrooms Demystified
David Arora
4.5
Comments: 1
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Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The ones who run our world.
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The ones who run our world.
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.6
Comments: 1
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The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
Thomas D Seeley
4.6
Comments: 1
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Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
George McGhee Jr.
4.5
Comments: 1
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen
4.5
Comments: 1
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How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology)
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology)
Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant
4.4
Comments: 1
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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches
Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches
Peter R. Grant, Jonathan Weiner
4.6
Comments: 1
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The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Adrienne Mayor
4.7
Comments: 1
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
Tucker Malarkey
4.7
Comments: 1
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Discovery of a new class of vertebrates: Crocodiles aren't reptiles. Crocodiles are a separate class which have been derived from reptiles such as birds & mammals
Discovery of a new class of vertebrates: Crocodiles aren't reptiles. Crocodiles are a separate class which have been derived from reptiles such as birds & mammals
Ramin Amirmardfar
0.0
Comments: 1
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The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
Charles S. Cockell
3.8
Comments: 1
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Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition
Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
4.0
Comments: 1
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Next of Kin: What My Conversations with Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Intelligence, Compassion and Being Human
Next of Kin: What My Conversations with Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Intelligence, Compassion and Being Human
STEPHEN MILLS ROGER FOUTS
4.8
Comments: 1
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Mushrooming without Fear: The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms
Mushrooming without Fear: The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms
Alexander Schwab
4.2
Comments: 1
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100 Edible Mushrooms
100 Edible Mushrooms
Michael Kuo
4.4
Comments: 1
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Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
Janet Mann
4.9
Comments: 1
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Nick Lane
4.6
Comments: 1
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Principles of Population Genetics
Principles of Population Genetics
Daniel L. Hartl, Andrew G. Clark
4.5
Comments: 1
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Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
4.4
Comments: 1
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The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check
The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check
Change Laura Tan, Rob Stadler
4.6
Comments: 1
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Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution
Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution
William C. McGrew
5.0
Comments: 1
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Lewin's GENES XII
Lewin's GENES XII
Stephen T. Kilpatrick
4.7
Comments: 1
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Harmony
Harmony
Prince Of Wales Charles
4.6
Comments: 1
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Fascinating Fungi of New England
Fascinating Fungi of New England
Lawrence Millman
4.6
Comments: 1
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How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
Brian Goodwin
3.5
Comments: 1
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor
4.7
Comments: 1
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Stanislas Dehaene
4.6
Comments: 1
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Daniel Chamovitz
4.5
Comments: 1
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
David Quammen
4.7
Comments: 1
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Frans de Waal
4.7
Comments: 1
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What is DNA? A Biology Adventure
What is DNA? A Biology Adventure
3.0
Comments: 1
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Confessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker: The Challenges of Staying Honest in an Industry Where Ratings Are King
Confessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker: The Challenges of Staying Honest in an Industry Where Ratings Are King
Chris Palmer
4.9
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The Tarantula Keeper's Guide: Comprehensive Information on Care, Housing, and Feeding
The Tarantula Keeper's Guide: Comprehensive Information on Care, Housing, and Feeding
Stanley A. Schultz, Marguerite J. Schultz
4.7
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
4.5
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