100 Books that shaped science in the 20th century

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from American Scientist 1999

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  1. 51.
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    The Logic of Scientific Discovery -
    by Karl Popper -

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  2. 52.
    The Two Cultures (Canto)
    by C. P. Snow

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  3. 53.
    Science and the Modern World
    by Alfred North Whitehead

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  4. 54.
    Jungle Days
    by William Beebe

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  5. 55.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  6. 56.
    Digging Dinosaurs
    by John R. And Gorman, James Horner

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  7. 57.
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    The Possible and the Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures)
    by Francois Jacob

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  8. 58.
    A Sand County Almanac
    by Aldo Leopold

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  9. 59.
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  10. 60.
    King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways
    by Konrad Z. Lorenz

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  11. 62.
    The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
    by Richard Preston

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  12. 63.
    Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
    by Lewis Thomas

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  13. 65.
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    Emerging Viruses.
    by Stephen S. (ed) Morse

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  14. 67.
    On Growth and Form (Canto)
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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  15. 68.
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    Biosphere
    by V. I. Vernadskii

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  16. 70.
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    The Insect Societies
    by Edward O. Wilson

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  17. 71.
    Blind Watchmaker
    by Richard Dawkins

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  18. 72.
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    Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
    by Stephen Jay Gould

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  19. 73.
    The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
    by Jonathan Weiner

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  20. 74.
    The Material Basis of Evolution (Silliman Milestones in Science)
    by Richard Benedict Goldschmidt

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  21. 75.
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    The genetical theory of natural selection,
    by Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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  22. 77.
    Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity
    by Howard E. Gruber

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  24. 80.
    Science and Human Values
    by Jacob Bronowski

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  25. 81.
    In the Shadow of Man
    by Jane Goodall

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  26. 82.
    the intelligent eye, with 3-D stereo illustrations
    by R.L. Gregory

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  28. 84.
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    Adam's Ancestors Evolution of Man and His Culture
    by L.S.B. Leakey

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  30. 86.
    How Writing Came About
    by Denise Schmandt-Besserat

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  31. 87.
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    The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior
    by George B. Schaller

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  32. 89.
    The Phenomenon of Man
    by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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  33. 90.
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    Thought and Language
    by Lev Semenovich Vygotsky

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  34. 91.
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    Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur
    by Charles Leonard, Sir Woolley

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  35. 92.
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    The Hunter or the Hunted: African Cave Taphonomy
    by C.K. Brain

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  36. 93.
    Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition)
    by Noam Chomsky

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  37. 94.
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    A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
    by Sigmund freud

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  38. 96.
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    The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
    by Richard Borshay Lee

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  39. 97.
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    Treasures of prehistoric art
    by Andre Leroi-Gourhan

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  40. 98.
    Society of Mind
    by Marvin Minsky

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  41. 100.
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    Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes
    by Ivan P. Pavlov

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