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Books like From Bacteria to Bach and Back
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett is about evolution, consciousness, memes and culture. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Consciousness Explained
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Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy
Consciousness Explained is Daniel Dennett's attempt to replace what he calls the Cartesian Theater — the intuitive picture of consciousness as a single unified stream of experience observed by a self — with a model he calls Multiple Drafts.
Read the summary → - The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Selfish Gene reframes evolution from the organism's point of view to the gene's.
Read the summary → - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker · Science
The Blank Slate is Steven Pinker's comprehensive attack on what he calls the three linked doctrines that dominated twentieth-century thinking about human nature: the Blank Slate (the mind begins without innate content and is formed entirely by experience), the Noble Savage (humans are naturally peaceful and corrupted only by civilization), and the Ghost in the Machine (the mind is separable from the body and exempt from natural laws).
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Read the summary → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
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