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Biology

What is life? Biologists tackle this question by studying living organisms, their development, anatomy, physiology, molecular and cellular mechanisms, and evolution.

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Summaries

9 Book

Buzz
The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2018
9 Book

Editing Humanity
The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
Kevin Davies
Pegasus Books, 2020
8 Book

Becoming Human
A Theory of Ontogeny
Michael Tomasello
Belknap Press, 2019
9 Book

Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster, 1996
9 Book

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Oxford UP, 1990
9 Book

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Adam Rutherford
Experiment, 2017
9 Book

Beyond Biocentrism
Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
Robert Lanza
BenBella, 2016
8 Article

‘Ancestry problem’ Sends CRISPR Astray in Some People
Reference genomes used to direct the gene editor fail to account for human diversity in those of African descent
Jocelyn Kaiser
Science, 2022
8 Book

A World Beyond Physics
The Emergence and Evolution of Life
Stuart A. Kauffman
Oxford UP, 2019
8 Article

Landmark CRISPR Trial Shows Promise Against Deadly Disease
Administering gene-editing treatment directly into the body could be a safe and effective way to treat a rare, life-threatening condition.
Heidi Ledford
Nature, 2021
9 Article

The World’s First Virus-Proof Cell, with Redesigned DNA, Is About to Meet the Test of Its Life
Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet. Impervious human cells may be next
Rowan Jacobsen
Scientific American, 2019
9 Article

Humans Evolved to Exercise
Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy
Herman Pontzer
Scientific American, 2019