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Books like Life Ascending
Life Ascending by Nick Lane is about evolution, origins of life, biochemistry. 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.
- 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 → - Why Evolution Is True
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Jerry A. Coyne · Science
Why Evolution Is True is evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne's systematic case for evolution, written for readers who want a rigorous but accessible treatment of the evidence.
Read the summary → - A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's attempt to understand the scientific story of everything — from the Big Bang to the emergence of modern humans — by spending three years talking to scientists and reading science history.
Read the summary → - Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin · Science
Your Inner Fish is paleontologist Neil Shubin's account of how understanding the deep evolutionary history of vertebrates reveals the origins of the human body.
Read the summary → - The Ancestor's Tale
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Ancestor's Tale is Richard Dawkins's account of the history of life on Earth, told backwards: beginning with humans and traveling back in evolutionary time to meet successive ancestors at the points where different lineages join.
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.
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