杏吧原创

1. The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
2. Genome by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate
3. The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane
4. Mendeleyev鈥檚 Dream by Paul Strathern, Hamish Hamilton
5. Trilobite by Richard Fortey, Harper Collins
6. The Maths Gene by Keith Devlin, Weidenfeld & Nicolso
7. Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
8. It Ain鈥檛 Necessarily So by Richard Lewontin, New York Review of Books
9. Alas, Poor Darwin by Hilary Rose & Steven Rose, Jonathan Cape
10. A Monk and Two Peas by Robin Henig, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Is it the weather that makes genetics and/or evolution a subject of eight of
the ten bestsellers? Do Londoners like to read about biology while they mutate
in the sun? The explanation might, of course, just be the hype about the human
genome project.

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