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  1. Questioning the Millennium by Stephen Jay Gould, Cape
  2. Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter, Addison Wesley
  3. The Human Brain by Susan Greenfield, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  4. Lifelines by Steven Rose, Allen Lane
  5. Clone by Gina Kolata, Allen Lane
  6. Junk Food Monkeys by Robert Sapolsky, Hodder Headline
  7. Why is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  8. How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh, British Medical Association
  9. Plague, Pox and Pestilence Kenneth Kiple, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  10. The Eleventh Plague by Leonard Cole, W. H. Freeman

Next week, a clone of a review when we look at Lee Silver’s Remaking Eden.

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