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1. Genome by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate
2. Almost Like a Whale by Steve Jones, Doubleday
3. Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips, Faber & Faber
4. A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate
5. The Second Creation by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge, Headline
6. The River by Edward Hooper, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press
7. Living Britain by Peter Crawford, BBC Books
8. Collins New Naturalist: Plant Disease by David S. Ingram and N. Robertson, Harper Collins
9. Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Chatto & Windus
10. Lucy’s Legacy by Alison Jolly, Harvard University Press

You’ll have difficulty tracking down Steve Jones’s Almost Like a
Whale after it has crossed the Atlantic. Curiously, it was renamed
Darwin’s Ghostwhen it was published in the US last month.

Information supplied by Blackwells, Oxford (fax 01865 794143), for
bestsellers in biology first published in hardback or paperback in Britain
within the past year.