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The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize
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Our most recommended books
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On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll -
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean -
The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins -
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes