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  1. A Passion for DNA by James Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press
  2. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Walker
  3. A Darwinian Left by Peter Singer, Yale University Press
  4. Life is a Miracle by Wendell Berry, Counterpoint
  5. Lying Stones of Marrakech by Stephen J. Gould, Harmony Books
  6. Genes, People, and Languages by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, North Point Press
  7. Genome by Matt Ridley, HarperCollins
  8. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman, Perseus Books
  9. The First Fossil Hunters by Adrienne Mayor, Princeton University Press
  10. The Triple Helix by Richard Lewontin, Harvard University Press

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