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The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.
In the 18th century, two men dedicated their ...
What with evolution and extinction, food chains and keystone species, rewilding and regeneration, the modern landscape of biodiversity is a vital place to explore. But ...
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveller, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist ...
"An extraordinary history of the perils and promise of every breath we take" James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath
"Another brilliant work ...
In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. Ball ...
A tantalising journey into the weird and wonderful world of fermentation, from its role in our evolution to the foods we love and everything in ...
'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in.' Cat Bohannon
A myth-busting vindication of women ...
Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since ...
What with consciousness and perception, memory and dementia, altered mental states and Artificial Intelligence, the modern landscape of brain science is an extraordinary place to ...
A leading scientist's guide to the way our immune system protects us-but only most of the time
What is our immune system, and how ...
For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the "secret of life." But over the last several decades, a ...
Meet the ecosystem inside you ...
A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the ...
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life ...
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers ...
