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  1. Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, HarperCollins

  2. The Hidden Connections by Fritjof Capra, HarperCollins

  3. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam

  4. Annie’s Box by Randal Keynes, Fourth Estate

  5. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media

  6. I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier by Max Perutz, Oxford University Press

  7. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard

  8. Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

  9. Newton by Patricia Fara, Macmillan

  10. What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Ernst Mayr led ornithological expeditions to New Guinea in 1928. An eclipse was due, so he tried…

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