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  1. Genome by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate
  2. Almost Like a Whale by Steve Jones, Doubleday
  3. Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips, Faber & Faber
  4. A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate
  5. The Second Creation by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge, Headline
  6. The River by Edward Hooper, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press
  7. Living Britain by Peter Crawford, BBC Books
  8. Collins New Naturalist: Plant Disease by David S. Ingram and N. Robertson, Harper Collins
  9. Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Chatto & Windus
  10. Lucy’s Legacy by Alison Jolly, Harvard University Press

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