Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

9 best books like Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Kevin J. Mitchell): The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Intelligence: All That Matters, Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves, Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

Author	Charles C. Mann
ISBN	0449806383

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first...

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Author	Nicholas A. Christakis
ISBN	0316230030

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times), Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.

For...

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	1476776628

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Author

Judea Pearl

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition...

Intelligence: All That Matters

Author

Stuart Ritchie

There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real", and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important...

Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves

Author	Patricia S. Churchland
ISBN	0393349446

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.

What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking...

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

Author	David A. Sinclair
ISBN	1501191977

It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold...

The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

Author	Charles Graeber
ISBN	1455568503

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible story of the discoveries of the tricks cancer uses to avoid the immune system, and the important new therapies already unleashing the immune system to fight -- and beat -- the disease.
Four years in the...

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

Author	Edward O. Wilson
ISBN	1631495542

Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior...