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Idiot Brain Summary
Idiot Brain
What Your Head Is Really Up To
by Dean Burnett 2016 302 pages
3.97
10k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Blueprint Summary
Blueprint
How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
by Robert Plomin 2018 288 pages
3.95
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
Exercised Summary
Exercised
Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2021 464 pages
4.18
9k+ ratings
Health
Science
Anthropology
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
Science
Health
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
4.25
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The User Illusion Summary
The User Illusion
Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
by Tor Nørretranders 1991 480 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
A Primate's Memoir Summary
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M. Sapolsky 2001 304 pages
4.39
8k+ ratings
Science
Memoir
Animals
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
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
4.28
13k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Medicine
Lifespan Summary
Lifespan
Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair 2019 432 pages
4.14
25k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy Summary
Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy
by Brad Schoenfeld 2016 224 pages
4.44
100+ ratings
Fitness
Health
Sports
The Evolution Of Desire Summary
The Evolution Of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
by David M. Buss 1994 354 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Relationships
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
Genetics
The Consciousness Instinct Summary
The Consciousness Instinct
Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
by Michael S. Gazzaniga 2018 288 pages
3.87
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Consilience Summary
Consilience
The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson 1998 368 pages
3.98
4k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
An Immense World Summary
An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong 2022 464 pages
4.47
31k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Animals
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 Story of the Human Body Summary
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages
4.26
8k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Molecular Biology of the Cell Summary
Molecular Biology of the Cell
by Bruce Alberts 1983 1616 pages
4.35
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Textbooks
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
7k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Emotional Brain Summary
The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph E. LeDoux 1996 384 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
Self Comes to Mind Summary
Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
by António Damásio 2010 384 pages
3.97
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
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
40k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Philosophy
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
Synaptic Self Summary
Synaptic Self
How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by Joseph E. LeDoux 2002 416 pages
4.00
5k+ ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
Animal Wise Summary
Animal Wise
The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
by Virginia Morell 2013 291 pages
4.13
2k+ ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
The Meme Machine Summary
The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore 1999 288 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality Summary
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by Jared Diamond 1997 176 pages
3.70
7k+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
The Origins of Virtue Summary
The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley 1997 265 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Mathematics of Life Summary
Mathematics of Life
by Ian Stewart 2011 368 pages
3.62
500+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Biology
Richard Dawkins Summary
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen 2006 283 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Science
Biography
Biology
The Epigenetics Revolution Summary
The Epigenetics Revolution
by Nessa Carey 2011 320 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Genetics
The Human Zoo Summary
The Human Zoo
A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
by Desmond Morris 1969 320 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
The Sports Gene Summary
The Sports Gene
Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
by David Epstein 2013 338 pages
4.20
16k+ ratings
Sports
Science
Health
The Blank Slate Summary
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker 2002 560 pages
4.09
24k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
At Home in the Universe Summary
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart A. Kauffman 1995 336 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Physics
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 Bonobo and the Atheist Summary
The Bonobo and the Atheist
In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
by Frans de Waal 2013 289 pages
4.15
5k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Other Minds Summary
Other Minds
by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2016 257 pages
3.88
26k+ ratings
Philosophy
Nature
Biology
Livewired Summary
Livewired
The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
by David Eagleman 2014 352 pages
4.16
4k+ ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
Moral Minds Summary
Moral Minds
How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
by Marc Hauser 2006 512 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Secret Wisdom of Nature Summary
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
by Peter Wohlleben 2017 272 pages
4.05
6k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
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 320 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Finance
Science
Tripping Over the Truth Summary
Tripping Over the Truth
The Metabolic Theory of Cancer
by Travis Christofferson 2014 297 pages
4.54
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
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
4.16
7k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
The Origin of Species Summary
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin 1859 703 pages
4.01
100k+ ratings
Science
Classics
Biology
Quantum Body Summary
Quantum Body
The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life
by Deepak Chopra 2023 336 pages
3.67
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The Genetic Lottery Summary
The Genetic Lottery
Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden 2021 312 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Politics
Your Brain Is a Time Machine Summary
Your Brain Is a Time Machine
The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
by Dean Buonomano 2017 304 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Physics
From Darwin to Derrida Summary
From Darwin to Derrida
Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
by David Haig 2020 512 pages
3.64
50+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
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