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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like...
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Do Animals Think?
by Clive Wynne
Powells.com Staff Pick "Assumptions mask the world, and anthropomorphism is a particularly blinding assumption. Wynne invites us to see the world for what it is. Along with Stephen Budiansky's If A Lion Could Talk, Do Animals Think? is a good primer in seeing past ourselves to...
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievement of Earthworms (Uk Edition)
by Amy Stewart
Powells.com Staff Pick A blind, lungless little plow that sifts our soil a teaspoon at a time is responsible for engineering our entire ecosystem. Amy Stewart has uncovered the earthworm's purposeful cycle into a delightful read that also serves as a reminder to savor our...
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Diane Ackerman writes with grace and wisdom. Her prose is lyrical, sensuous, and utterly charming. I've never been disappointed in a work by Ackerman, but An Alchemy of Mind takes the cake. Here she covers neurochemistry and -physiology and the concept...
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
by Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Rose
Powells.com Staff Pick If you are a fan, this collection of 44 of Stephen Jay Gould's best known essays, as well as a few never before published speeches, will make a wonderful keepsake, a beautiful volume that will be pulled from your bookshelf and savored, time and again...
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Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Powells.com Staff Pick Do not attempt this at home! Last time we heard from Sullivan, he was braving the polluted Meadowlands in a canoe. Now, in Rats, he shares his year of nights in a lower Manhattan alley, watching rats in their natural habitat to learn what he can...
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
by Elizabeth Hess
Powells.com Staff Pick This compassionate biography explores a fascinating character and an important story, beautifully illustrating the life of the mischievous chimpanzee who was the subject of a language experiment in the '70s. Both hopeful and sad, this moving account...
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A Primate's Memoir
by Robert M Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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