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books worth reading

books influential to our research

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  • The Strategy of the Genes  -- by C.H. Waddington

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  • Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease -- by Barton Childs

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  • The Logic of Life -- by Francois Jacob​

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  • The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life -- by Werner R. Loewenstein

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  • The Music of Life: Biology beyond the Genome -- by Denis Noble

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  • The Origins of Order -- by Stuart A. Kauffman

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  • Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology  -- by Kunihiko Kaneko

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  • Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment -- by Robert G. B. Reid

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  • The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma -- by Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart​​

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  • The Quark and the Jaguar -- by Gell-Mann M

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  • Innate -- by Kevin Mitchell​

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  • Brains Through Time -- by Georg F. Striedter

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  • Principles of Neural Design -- by Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin

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  • What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design -- by Peter Sterling

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  • ​Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes -- by Bertil Hille

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  • Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution -- by Peter W. Hochachka, George N. Somero​​

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  • Data-Driven Science and Engineering -- by Steven Brunton and Nathan Kutz

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books of general interest

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popular science

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  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers -- by Robert Sapolsky

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  • The Deep History of Ourselves -- by Joseph LeDoux

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  • The Story of the Human Body Evolution, Health, and Disease -- by Daniel Lieberman

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  • Exercised -- by Daniel Lieberman

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  • Evolution Gone Wrong -- by Alexander Bezzerides

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  • Scale -- by Geoffrey West

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  • The Song of the Cell -- by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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  • The Laws of Medicine -- by Siddhartha Mukherjee​

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  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity -- by: Peter Attia

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  • The Longevity Diet -- by Valter Longo

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  • Brain Energy -- by Christopher M. Palmer MD

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  • Nature Wants Us to Be Fat -- by Richard J. Johnson MD​​

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  • Blueprint -- by Robert Plomin

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  • The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons -- by: Sam Kean

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  • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog -- by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz

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  • Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness -- by Anne Harrington

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  • No One Cares About Crazy People -- by Ron Powers

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  • A Series of Fortunate Events -- by: Sean B. Carroll​

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  • Ignorance: How It Drives Science -- by Stuart Firestein​​​

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philosophy, meditation, other, ...

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  • Waking up -- by Sam Harris

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  • Making Sense -- by Sam Harris

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  • Out of Your Mind -- by Alan Watts

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  • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are -- by Alan Watts​​​​

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  • No self, no problem -- by Anam Thubten

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  • Shift into Freedom -- by Loch Kelly

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  • On Having No Head  -- by Douglas Edison Harding​

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  • Why Buddhism is True: The science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment  -- by Robert Wright

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  • The Happiness Hypothesis -- by Jonathan Haidt​

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  • In Love with the World -- by: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov​

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  • Into the Magic Shop -- by James R. Doty MD

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  • The Craving Mind -- by Judson Brewer​​

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  • The Embodied Mind -- by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch​

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  • A Guide to the Good Life -- by William B. Irvine

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  • The Stoic Challenge -- by William B. Irvine​

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  • Man's Search for Meaning  -- by Viktor E. Frankl​​​

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  • How to Change Your Mind -- by Michael Pollan

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  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -- by Yuval Noah Harari

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  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow -- by Yuval Noah Harari​​

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  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century -- by Yuval Noah Harari​

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  • Mastery -- by Robert Greene

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  • 12 rules for life: An antidote to chaos  -- by Jordan B. Peterson

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  • Principles: Life and Work -- by Ray Dalio

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