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Life - Here and elsewhere
The Variety of Life: A survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever livedThe Variety of Life: A survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived by Colin Tudge
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A must have reference on the classification of life even thought slightly dated already (cladistics moves fast)
Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in EvolutionDeep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee
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What cladistics is about - should be essential reading for any would be scientist
The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification (Harvard University Press Reference Library)The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by G Lecointre
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Another must have reference on the classification of life
Life as We Do Not Know it: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis Of) Alien LifeLife as We Do Not Know it: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis Of) Alien Life by Peter Douglas Ward
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Consideration of the possiblities of life within the solar system
The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our WorldThe Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World by Peter Ward
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It's all downhill from hereon!
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the UniverseRare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward
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We probably are alone, at least as far as intelligent life goes...
Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of AstrobiologyLife Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology by David Darling
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...but this guy doesn't think so
Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past anUnder A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past an by Peter D Ward
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An Awful Warning
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? (Science Essentials)The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? (Science Essentials) by Peter Ward
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Antithesis of the Gaia hypothesis
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human NatureThe Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
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Oxygen: The molecule that made the world (Popular Science)Oxygen: The molecule that made the world (Popular Science) by Nick Lane
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of lifePower, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Nick Lane
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The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's historyThe Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
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The Story of LifeThe Story of Life by Professor Sir Richard Southwood
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library) by Andrew H. Knoll
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Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely UniverseLife's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
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Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of LifeMendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life by Mark Ridley
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The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science)The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science) by Edward O Wilson
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