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Self Comes to Mind Summary
Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
by AntΓ³nio DamΓ‘sio 2010 384 pages
3.97
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Emotional Lives of Animals Summary
The Emotional Lives of Animals
A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
by Marc Bekoff 2007 256 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
The Song of the Cell Summary
The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022 473 pages
4.29
15k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Medicine
The Hidden Life of Trees Summary
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by Peter Wohlleben 2015 272 pages
4.06
89k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Environment
Exercised Summary
Exercised
The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2021
4.17
10k+ ratings
Health
Science
Anthropology
The Blank Slate Summary
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker 2002 560 pages
4.09
25k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Clot Thickens Summary
The Clot Thickens
by Malcolm Kendrick 2021 334 pages
4.65
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
The Telomere Effect Summary
The Telomere Effect
A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
by Elizabeth Blackburn 2017 348 pages
3.77
5k+ ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The Songs of Trees Summary
The Songs of Trees
Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
by David George Haskell 2017 304 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
The Biology of Desire Summary
The Biology of Desire
Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
by Marc Lewis 2015 256 pages
4.09
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Addiction
Science
The Expanding Circle Summary
The Expanding Circle
Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
by Peter Singer 1981 232 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
The Blind Watchmaker Summary
The Blind Watchmaker
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins 1986 466 pages
4.09
41k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain Summary
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett 2020 192 pages
4.04
8k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Extended Phenotype Summary
The Extended Phenotype
The Long Reach of the Gene
by Richard Dawkins 1982 336 pages
4.12
9k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Meme Machine Summary
The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore 1999 288 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Consilience Summary
Consilience
The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson 1998 368 pages
3.98
5k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
The Gene Summary
The Gene
An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2016 592 pages
4.35
56k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
The Neuroscience of Intelligence Summary
The Neuroscience of Intelligence
by Richard J. Haier 2015 270 pages
4.23
453 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Light Eaters Summary
The Light Eaters
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by ZoΓ« Schlanger 2024 304 pages
4.26
9k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Mind & Cosmos Summary
Mind & Cosmos
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
by Thomas Nagel 2012 144 pages
3.59
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
Livewired Summary
Livewired
The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
by David Eagleman 2014 352 pages
4.16
5k+ ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
Why Is Sex Fun? Summary
Why Is Sex Fun?
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by Jared Diamond 1997 176 pages
3.71
7k+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
An Immense World Summary
An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong 2022 464 pages
4.46
36k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Animals
Why We Die Summary
Why We Die
The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
by Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 318 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Darwin's Dangerous Idea Summary
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C. Dennett 1995 588 pages
4.07
17k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Evolution
Power, Sex, Suicide Summary
Power, Sex, Suicide
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane 2005 354 pages
4.25
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Other Minds Summary
Other Minds
by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2016 257 pages
3.88
28k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Nature
Quantum Body Summary
Quantum Body
The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life
by Deepak Chopra 2023 336 pages
3.69
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The Ape that Understood the Universe Summary
The Ape that Understood the Universe
How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams 2018 378 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Tell-Tale Brain Summary
The Tell-Tale Brain
A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
by V.S. Ramachandran 2010 384 pages
4.15
10k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Chemistry Between Us Summary
The Chemistry Between Us
Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
by Larry Young 2012 320 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Relationships
The Sports Gene Summary
The Sports Gene
Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
by David Epstein 2013 338 pages
4.20
17k+ ratings
Sports
Science
Health
10% Human Summary
10% Human
How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
by Alanna Collen 2015 336 pages
4.36
4k+ ratings
Health
Science
Biology
Sync Summary
Sync
by Steven H. Strogatz 2003 352 pages
4.07
3k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Physics
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Summary
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by Frans de Waal 2016 340 pages
3.97
16k+ ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology Summary
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
by Gerard J. Tortora 1942 1264 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Science
Textbooks
Reference
FREEDOM Summary
FREEDOM
The End of the Human Condition
by Jeremy Griffith 2016 798 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Supernormal Stimuli Summary
Supernormal Stimuli
How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
by Deirdre Barrett 2010 226 pages
3.69
391 ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
The Code Breaker Summary
The Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson 2021 536 pages
4.28
41k+ ratings
Science
Biography
History
Synaptic Self Summary
Synaptic Self
How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by Joseph E. LeDoux 2002 416 pages
4.00
5k+ ratings
Neuroscience
Science
Psychology
Ageless Summary
Ageless
The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
by Andrew Steele 2020 348 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
A Primate's Memoir Summary
A Primate's Memoir
by Robert M. Sapolsky 2001 304 pages
4.39
8k+ ratings
Science
Memoir
Animals
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf Summary
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
by John Coates 2012 352 pages
3.92
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Finance
Science
Who We Are and How We Got Here Summary
Who We Are and How We Got Here
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by David Reich 2018 335 pages
4.14
6k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
The Epigenetics Revolution Summary
The Epigenetics Revolution
by Nessa Carey 2011 320 pages
4.05
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Genetics
Richard Dawkins Summary
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
by Mark Ridley 2006 304 pages
3.77
485 ratings
Science
Biography
Biology
She Has Her Mother's Laugh Summary
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer 2018 657 pages
4.15
7k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters Summary
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do
by Alan S. Miller 2006 252 pages
3.56
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Principles of Biochemistry Summary
Principles of Biochemistry
by Albert L. Lehninger 1970 1119 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Science
Textbooks
Biology
Peoplewatching Summary
Peoplewatching
The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language
by Desmond Morris 1977 544 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
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