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Science

A list of books about science mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins

most mentioned
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
by David Epstein
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
by Eric Barker
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by Sean Carroll

space
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
by Richard Dawkins
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
by James Nestor

sports
Biochemical Individuality
by Roger J. Williams

health
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
by American Psychiatric Association
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking

space
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker, PhD

health
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates
by Howard Bloom

space
Principles of Geology
by Charles Lyell
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by Carlo Rovelli
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
by Nicolaus Copernicus
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
by Adam Frank

space
The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate
by Adam Frank

religion
Astronomy: At Play in the Cosmos
by Adam Frank

space
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer
Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self
by Jennifer Ouellette

psychology
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
by Sean Carroll

space
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

space
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang

space military
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
by Robert Plomin
The Emperor’s New Mind
by Roger Penrose
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
by Geoffrey West
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn

philosophy
Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad
by Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD

health
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin

music
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
by Sean Carroll

space
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
by Joseph LeDoux
Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
by Joseph LeDoux
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph LeDoux
Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
by Ray Kurzweil & Terry Grossman
Letters from an Astrophysicist
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

space
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
by Brian Greene

space
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene

space
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene

space
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene

space
Edge Question Series
by John Brockman
The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
by Frank A. von Hippel
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein (A Hundred Authors Against Einstein)
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
by Shanna H. Swan, PhD with Stacey Colino
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
by Neil deGrasse Tyson with James Trefil

space
T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
by Carole Hooven

sex
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
by Anil Seth

psychology
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
by Michio Kaku
The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
by Bobby Azarian
What is Life?: With Mind and Matter
by Erwin Schrodinger

philosophy
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
by Harold J. Morowitz
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
by Roger Lewin
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson

biography
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
by Kary Mullis

biography
Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
by Richard Feynman
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
by Sarah Hill

sex
Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
by Michio Kaku

science
Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger
by Galileo Galilei
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor by Brian Keating
by Brian Keating
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan

space
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
by David Kaiser
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence
by Sara Imari Walker