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  1. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

  2. The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow, Faber and Faber

  3. Life On Air by David Attenborough, BBC

  4. Science: A History 1543-2001 by John Gribbin, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

  5. Y: The Descent of Man by Steve Jones, Little, Brown

  6. Fauna Britannica by Duff Hart-Davis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

  7. The Mechanical Turk by Tom Standage, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

  8. The Constants of Nature by John Barrow, Jonathan Cape

  9. Life of Mammals by David Attenborough, BBC

  10. Small World by Mark Buchanan, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Mark Buchanan’s first book Ubiquity comes out in paperback in a week or…

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