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The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize
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On the Origin of Species
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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The Elegant Universe
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
by Carl Sagan & Iosif Shklovsky






