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The Vital Question appears in 4 book lists on Shepherd.

My favorite books by scientists that depict science in action

Book cover of Silent Spring Book cover of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Book cover of The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Book cover of The Mediterranean was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger Book cover of Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

My favorite books for engineers who want to take a break from coding and think big thoughts

Book cover of The Brain: The Story of You Book cover of Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself Book cover of Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos Book cover of The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Book cover of This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

The best nonfiction books for my sci-fi future worldbuilding

Book cover of The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World Book cover of The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Book cover of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Book cover of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything Book cover of Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

The best biology books on the deep history of life on earth

Book cover of Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable Book cover of Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Book cover of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Book cover of Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution Book cover of The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

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