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  1. The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough, BBC Books

  2. Blood and Guts by Roy Porter, Penguin

  3. Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

  4. Dr. Riemann’s Zeros by Karl Sabbagh, Atlantic Books

  5. Ig Nobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams, Orion

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

  7. The Man Who Knew Too Much by Stephen Inwood, Pan Macmillan

  8. Y: The descent of men by Steve Jones, Little, Brown

  9. Sense and Nonsense by Kevin Laland, Oxford University Press

  10. Human Instinct by Robert Winston, Bantam

Roy Porter died last year and is sadly missed. As the Wellcome Institute puts it,…

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