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Best New Popular Science Books
Regular updates of the most interesting and best reviewed popular science books that have recently been published
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present Paul Seabright | Hardcover Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, this book shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation.
The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O. Wilson | Hardcover Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, this book presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth’s biosphere.
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind The fascinating chronicle of life’s history is not told through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time.
Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of a Wonder Drug Peter Pringle | Hardcover This book reveals for the first time the scandals behind one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine.
Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization Adrian Bejan | Hardcover Everything, from biological life to inanimate systems, generates structure and shape and this book shows that the so called “Constructal Law” accounts for the evolution of virtually all patterns and designs in our world.
Based on 12 “science book lists” from different sources ranging from the Economist and the New York Times to the Washington Post and the New Scientist, we have created a list of popular science books that were most mentioned on any of these lists. Below is the outcome of that analysis, providing the best popular science books [...]
Honeybee Democracy Thomas D. Seeley | Hardcover This book addresses the honeybees’ amazing collective wisdom and effective decision making processes and shows that their way of operating could also work for people.
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World Anders Halverson | Paperback This book provides an exhaustively researched account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked freshwater fish in the US.
The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well Lynne A. Isbell | Paperback This book argues that snakes have played a key role in shaping human vision and the evolution of the human brain.
Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek | Paperback