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1. River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1)

2. Darwin鈥檚 Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, Allen Lane

3. The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner, Hutchinson (7)

4. Major Transitions in Evolution by John Maynard Smith, W. H. Freeman

5. The Book of Man by Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie, Abacus (8)

6. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, Corgi (6)

7. Dark Nature by Lyall Watson, Hodder & Stoughton

8. Reinventing Darwin by Niles Eldredge, Weidenfeld & Nicholson

9. What is Life? The Next Fifty Years edited by Michael Murphy and Luke O鈥橬eill, Cambridge University Press

10. At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman, Viking

Hot off the press, What is life? enters our list The third book this year with this title, readers shouldn鈥檛 muddle it with Margulis and Sagan鈥檚 survey of biology. One of its authors is John Maynard Smith, giving him two places in the top ten. Information supplied by Blackwell鈥檚, Oxford (Fax 01865 794143) for bestsellers in the biological sciences first published in hardback or paperback within the post 12 months. For more reviews see Planet Science at .