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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould
4.14 average rating, · 10.4k ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
David Quammen
4.29 average rating, · 8.7k ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday
4.10 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
4.13 average rating, · 7k ratings
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Life on Earth
David Attenborough
4.47 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich
4.05 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
Dave Goulson
4.29 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Mind of the Raven
Bernd Heinrich
4.00 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
4.14 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Richard Fortey
4.09 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
4.17 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
4.18 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould
4.11 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Secrets of the Octopus
Sy Montgomery
4.39 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Life of Birds
David Attenborough
4.42 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Living Planet
David Attenborough
4.35 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
Robert T. Bakker
4.23 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures With the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
Merlin Tuttle
4.34 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
4.11 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
4.21 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
David Quammen
4.01 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
Carl Zimmer
4.08 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
Lewis Thomas
4.09 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Thor Hanson
4.13 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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